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Test 3 · ★★ · When a parent has died

Darnell's quiet when kids talk about dads and games. What would most likely help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: talk, help

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 518 «When a parent has died» 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: Darnell's quiet when kids talk about dads and games.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Darnell	Darnell	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 quiet	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Darnell	case
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 talk	advmod
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	nsubj
6	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quiet	advcl
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 dads	case
8	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 games	cc
10	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dads	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	kids					about dads and games	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dad=Topic

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 help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would						likely property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Telling him to cheer up, it was ages ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 ages	csubj
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Telling	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cheer	mark
4	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Telling	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 cheer	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Telling	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ages	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ages	cop
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 ages	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cheer up not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	it	ages				ago property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Including him, like Marco did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Including	include	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 did	advcl
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Including	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Including	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Marco	case
5	Marco	Marco	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 did	obl
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	include	gerund		him = he					vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	do	past						like Marco	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Leaving him alone at recess till he's okay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leaving	obj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Leaving	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 recess	case
5	recess	recess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 okay	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 okay	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 okay	cop
9	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Leaving	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		him = he		recess		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at recess=Location
2	is	present	he					okay property	tree rules

Option 4

Never mentioning dads near him again, ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 mentioning	advmod
2	mentioning	mention	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mentioning	obj
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dads	nmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 mentioning	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ever	punct
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 mentioning	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mention speech: other	gerund		dads			again; ever	near him = he	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dad=Topic

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