Test 5 · Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt

In a cartoon, a kid living with his gran is sad and lonely forever. What's more real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: live, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 5 of lesson 523 «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» 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 kid living with his gran is sad and lonely forever.

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	12 sad	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sad	nsubj
7	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kid	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 gran	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gran	nmod:poss
10	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 living	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sad	cop
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lonely	cc
14	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sad	conj
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	14 lonely	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	live	gerund	a kid not said here		with kid's gran	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with gran=Location
2	is	present	a kid	a cartoon	sad property	tree rules
3	be		a kid not said here		forever property	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'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

Kids living with grans are always lonely and miserable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lonely	nsubj
2	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Kids	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 grans	case
4	grans	gran	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 living	obl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lonely	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 lonely	advmod
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 miserable	cc
9	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lonely	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	live	gerund	Kids not said here	with grans	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with gran=Location
2	is	present	Kids	always, lonely property	tree rules
3	be		Kids not said here		tree rules

Option 2

Living with a gran is always perfect, cosy and never ever hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 perfect	csubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 gran	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gran	det
4	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Living	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 perfect	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 perfect	advmod
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cosy	punct
9	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 perfect	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hard	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 hard	advmod
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 hard	advmod
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 perfect	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	live	gerund		with a gran	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with gran=Location
2	is	present	Living	always, perfect property	tree rules
3	be		Living not said here		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It can be hard, and it can also be warm and full of family

The tree, 14 words

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	4 hard	expl
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	cop
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 warm	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 warm	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 warm	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 warm	aux
9	also	also	ADV	_	11 warm	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 warm	cop
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hard	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 full	cc
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 warm	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 family	case
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	can		hard property	tree rules
2	is	can	it	warm property	tree rules
3	be			of family	tree rules

Option 4

Grans are too old to look after anybody at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grans	Gran	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 old	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 old	xcomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 anybody	case
8	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 look	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grans					old property	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	Grans not said here				after anybody	at all	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme

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