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Test 6 · ★ · Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met

A cartoon shows grandparents abroad as sad people waiting by the phone all day. What's truer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, sad people · What happens: show, wait, be · To what, where: grandparents

This is test 6 · ★ 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: A cartoon shows grandparents abroad as sad people waiting by the phone all day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	obj
5	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	3 shows	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	obl
9	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 people	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 phone	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 phone	det
12	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waiting	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waiting	obl:unmarked
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	grandparents				as sad people; abroad property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandparent=Recipient
2	wait	gerund	sad people not said here				day	by the phone	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by phone=Location

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: What's truer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 truer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 truer	cop
3	truer	true	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 truer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They have busy lives and love the calls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lives	amod
4	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 love	cc
6	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 calls	det
8	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	busy lives					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
2	love	present	They not said here	the calls					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus

Option 2

They don't care about their grandchildren

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 care	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 care	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 care	advmod
4	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 grandchildren	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandchildren	nmod:poss
7	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	present · do-support	They					about their grandchildren	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about grandchild=Stimulus

Option 3

They can't use phones at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 use	advmod
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	can	They	phones		all			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient

Option 4

They do nothing but wait by the phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 do	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 do	conj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 phone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 phone	det
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	They	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	wait	infinitive	They not said here					by the phone	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by phone=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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