Test 11 · ★ · Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison
«my mate's mum is FIFO, does that mean she never comes home?». Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, FIFO · What happens: be, mean, not come · To what, where: FIFO
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 519 «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» 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: «my mate's mum is FIFO, does that mean she never comes home?».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 FIFO | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mum | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 mate | case |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 FIFO | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 FIFO | cop |
| 7 | FIFO | FIFO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 FIFO | punct |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | aux |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 comes | advmod |
| 14 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | parataxis |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 comes | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 comes | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 comes | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | my mate's mum | FIFO | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | FIFO | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | present | FIFO | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, FIFO means gone for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | FIFO | FIFO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 good | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gone | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | FIFO | gone property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yes, she lives at the mine forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 lives | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mine | det |
| 7 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | obl |
| 8 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 lives | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | she | the mine | forever property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mine=Location |
Option 3
No, she drives home from work every single night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 drives | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drives | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drives | nsubj |
| 4 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 drives | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drives | obl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 night | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 night | amod |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drives | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present | she | work | night | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from work=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, she flies home after her weeks away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 flies | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flies | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flies | nsubj |
| 4 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 flies | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 weeks | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 weeks | nmod:poss |
| 8 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flies | obl |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flies | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | she | week | away, home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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