Test 5 · ★★★ · Mum on her own, Dad on his own
Darragh: «Da's cooking is pure muck, sausages AGAIN». What would most likely happen if they kept cooking together?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cooking, Da, sausages · What happens: be, cook, happen, keep · To what, where: pure muck
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 515 «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» 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: Darragh: «Da's cooking is pure muck, sausages AGAIN».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darragh | Darragh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 muck | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 muck | punct |
| 4 | Da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cooking | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Da | case |
| 6 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 muck | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 muck | cop |
| 8 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 muck | amod |
| 9 | muck | muck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Darragh | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sausages | punct |
| 11 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 muck | appos |
| 12 | AGAIN | again | ADV | _ | 11 sausages | advmod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 sausages | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Darragh | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Da's cooking | pure muck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cook in a quote | Da | nom cooking «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 would most likely happen if they kept cooking together?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 happen | advmod |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 kept | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | advcl |
| 9 | cooking | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 kept | xcomp |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 cooking | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | likely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep a condition, not said to happen | past | sausages = sausage | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cook | gerund | sausages = sausage not said here | together property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1
They'd only ever eat beans
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 | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 eat | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | would | They | beans | ever | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Da would stop cooking for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | aux |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | cooking | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stop | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 good | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cooking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | Da | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cook | gerund | Da not said here | for good | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary |
Option 3
Darragh would be told off for helping
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darragh | Darragh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 told | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 helping | case |
| 7 | helping | helping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell off speech: assert | would · passive | Darragh | for helping | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Da would learn new dinners and they'd have fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 learn | aux |
| 3 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dinners | amod |
| 5 | dinners | dinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learn | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 learn | conj |
| 10 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | would | Da | new dinners | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | would | dinners = dinner | fun | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |
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