Test 4 · Living in a children's home
In a cartoon, a children's home is a scary old building run by a cruel lady. What's more real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: home · What happens: be, run · To what, where: scary old building, cartoon
This is test 4 of lesson 520 «Living in a children's home» 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, a children's home is a scary old building run by a cruel lady.
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 | 13 building | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 children | det |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 children | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 building | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 building | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 building | det |
| 11 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 building | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 building | amod |
| 13 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 building | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 lady | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lady | det |
| 17 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lady | amod |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 run | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 building | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a children's home | a scary old building | a cartoon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | participle | a scary old building not said here | by a cruel lady | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lady=Trajectory |
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 more real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 real | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 real | amod |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Usually an ordinary house with caring staff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 house | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 3 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 staff | case |
| 6 | caring | caring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 staff | compound |
| 7 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Children's homes don't exist in real life now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 homes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Children | case |
| 3 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 exist | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 exist | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 exist | advmod |
| 6 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exist | obl |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 exist | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not exist | present · do-support | Children's homes | real life | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location |
Option 3
Every home is a scary building with a cruel boss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 home | det |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 building | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 building | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 building | det |
| 5 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 building | amod |
| 6 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 boss | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 boss | det |
| 9 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boss | amod |
| 10 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 building | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | every home | a scary building | with a cruel boss | tree rules |
Option 4
Homes are like hotels where kids do whatever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hotels | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hotels | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 hotels | case |
| 4 | hotels | hotel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 do | advmod |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hotels | acl:relcl |
| 8 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Homes | like hotels | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | kids | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality |
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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