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Test 7 · ★ · Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison

Bryce: «Dad's not the same, it's a bummer». What could help?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bryce, it · What happens: not be, be, help · To what, where: bummer

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Bryce: «Dad's not the same, it's a bummer».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bryce	Bryce	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 same	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct
4	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 same	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 same	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 same	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bummer	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bummer	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bummer	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bummer	det
13	bummer	bummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 same	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 bummer	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Bryce					same property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	it	a bummer					tree rules

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 could help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Pretending the injury isn't there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 there	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 injury	det
3	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pretending	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund		the injury					tree rules
2	not is	present	Pretending					there property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Finding new things to do together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Finding	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 things	acl
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	gerund		new things					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive		new things not said here				together property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Never playing anything again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 playing	advmod
2	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 playing	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 playing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	gerund		anything			again		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Telling Dad he's useless now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 useless	csubj
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 useless	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 useless	cop
5	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 useless	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			Dad				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient
2	is	present	he				now	useless property	tree rules

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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