Test 7 · ★★ · Dementia and the first death in the family
Lettie: «Nana called me a thief, she hates me now». What's truer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lettie, Nana · What happens: call, hate, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 514 «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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: Lettie: «Nana called me a thief, she hates me now».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lettie | Lettie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lettie | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 4 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 called | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thief | det |
| 8 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hates | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hates | nsubj |
| 11 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hates | obj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hates | advmod |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 hates | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | past | Lettie | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hate in a quote | present | Nana | me | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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
Lettie must have done something wrong to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lettie | Lettie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must · perfect | Lettie | something | her = she | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It's the illness, not Nana's real feelings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 illness | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 illness | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 illness | det |
| 4 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feelings | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 feelings | advmod |
| 7 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Nana | case |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feelings | amod |
| 10 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 illness | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the illness and Nana's real feelings | tree rules |
Option 3
Nana really thinks Lettie is a thief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 thinks | advmod |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Lettie | Lettie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thief | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thief | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thief | det |
| 7 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Nana | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Lettie | a thief | tree rules |
Option 4
Nana has always secretly hated her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 hated | advmod |
| 4 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 5 hated | advmod |
| 5 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hated | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Nana | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hate | past | Nana not said here | Nana | always, secretly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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