Test 6 · Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt
Imani's grandad can't braid. What does that show?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad, that · What happens: not braid, show
This is test 6 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: Imani's grandad can't braid.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imani | Imani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Imani | case |
| 3 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 braid | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 braid | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 braid | advmod |
| 6 | braid | braid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 braid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not braid | can | Imani's grandad | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 does that show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 show | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
Neighbours shouldn't get involved in families
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | involved | involved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 families | case |
| 7 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | should | Neighbours | families | involved property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Kinship carers sometimes need help, and asking is fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinship | kinship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carers | compound |
| 2 | carers | carer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 need | advmod |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fine | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fine | cc |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 fine | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fine | cop |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 need | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Kinship carers | help | sometimes property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | fine property | tree rules |
Option 3
Imani should stop having braids for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imani | imani | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | aux |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stop | xcomp |
| 5 | braids | braid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 having | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 good | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 having | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | should | Imani | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Imani not said here | braids | for good | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braid=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Grandad isn't good enough to look after a girl at all, so she must move
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | csubj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 girl | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 girl | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 move | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 move | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 move | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 move | aux |
| 17 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Grandad | enough, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | after a girl at all | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | move | must | girl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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