Test 4 · Adoption
Somebody stares at Ana and her mum in the supermarket. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Somebody · What happens: stare, be
This is test 4 of lesson 522 «Adoption» 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: Somebody stares at Ana and her mum in the supermarket.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 stares | nsubj |
| 2 | stares | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Ana | case |
| 4 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stares | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mum | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mum | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ana | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 supermarket | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 supermarket | det |
| 10 | supermarket | supermarket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mum | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stares | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | present | Somebody | at Ana and her mum in the supermarket | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ana=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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Staring is rude, and Ana chooses what to share
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 chooses | csubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rude | cop |
| 3 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Staring | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chooses | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 chooses | cc |
| 6 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chooses | nsubj |
| 7 | chooses | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 share | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 share | mark |
| 10 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 chooses | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | rude property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | choose | present | Ana | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | share | to-infinitive | Ana not said here | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It's polite to stare at families who look different
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 polite | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 polite | cop |
| 3 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stare | mark |
| 5 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 polite | csubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 families | case |
| 7 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stare | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 families | acl:relcl |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | polite property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stare | to-infinitive | at families | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at family=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | present | families | different property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Ana must explain her whole story to everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ana | ana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 explain | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 explain | aux |
| 3 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 explain | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 everyone | case |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 explain | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | must | Ana | Ana's whole story | everyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to everyone=Recipient |
Option 4
Ana's mum should carry the adoption papers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ana | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 papers | det |
| 7 | adoption | adoption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 papers | compound |
| 8 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | should | Ana's mum | the adoption papers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme |
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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