Test 11 · ★ · Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met
Pooja, Nani's parcel and Pooja's drawings travel between Leicester and Delhi. Which of these is NOT a way they keep close?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pooja drawings, drawings · What happens: travel, not be, keep · To what, where: Leicester, way
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 513 «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Pooja, Nani's parcel and Pooja's drawings travel between Leicester and Delhi.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pooja | Pooja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 drawings | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 parcel | punct |
| 3 | Nani | Nani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 parcel | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Nani | case |
| 5 | parcel | parcel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pooja | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Pooja | cc |
| 7 | Pooja | Pooja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pooja | conj |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Pooja | case |
| 9 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 travel | nsubj |
| 10 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 Leicester | case |
| 12 | Leicester | Leicester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 travel | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Delhi | cc |
| 14 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Leicester | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 travel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | Pooja drawings | Leicester and Delhi | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between leicester=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: Which of these is NOT a way they keep close?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 way | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 way | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 5 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 way | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | of a way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | drawings = drawing | a way not said here | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Sending sweets at Diwali
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sending | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Diwali | case |
| 4 | Diwali | Diwali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sending | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | gerund | sweets | Diwali | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Never writing, so Nani doesn't worry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 writing | advmod |
| 2 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 worry | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 worry | advmod |
| 5 | Nani | Nani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 worry | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worry | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 worry | advmod |
| 8 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 writing | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not write | gerund | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not worry | present · do-support | Nani | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Calling and talking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 talking | cc |
| 3 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Calling | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Sending drawings back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sending | obj |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Sending | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send back | gerund | drawings | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Theme |
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