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Test 8 · ★★★ · Mum on her own, Dad on his own

In a cartoon, the single dad is useless and burns everything forever. What's truer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: single dad · What happens: be, burn · To what, where: cartoon, everything

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: In a cartoon, the single dad is useless and burns everything forever.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 useless	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dad	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dad	amod
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 useless	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 useless	cop
9	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 burns	cc
11	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 useless	conj
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 burns	obj
13	forever	forever	ADV	_	11 burns	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 useless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the single dad			a cartoon		useless property	tree rules
2	burn	present	the single dad not said here	everything				forever property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

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

Only mums can look after children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 mums	advmod
2	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	can	mums				after children		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Dads can never learn to cook or braid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cook	mark
6	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 braid	cc
8	braid	braid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	Dads						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cook	to-infinitive	Dads not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	braid	infinitive	Dads not said here						vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Single dads learn new skills, with effort

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dads	amod
2	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	nsubj
3	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skills	amod
5	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 effort	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 effort	case
8	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	Single dads	new skills				with effort	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Topic

Option 4

Single dads always give up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dads	amod
2	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 give	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	present	Single dads					always property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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