Test 10 · Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

this sum's impossible, been on it ages, i give up

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: i · What happens: be, give up · To what, where: ages

This is test 10 of lesson 94 «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 impossible	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sum	case
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ages	punct
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 ages	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 been	obl
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 impossible	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
12	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 give	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	participle		ages					tree rules
2	give up	present	i						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Take a short break, read it again, then ask for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 break	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 break	amod
4	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 read	punct
6	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 read	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ask	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 ask	advmod
11	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 help	case
13	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	a short break			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme
2	read	infinitive		break	again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		then	for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Copy the answer from a friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 answer	det
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 friend	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	the answer				from a friend	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme

Option 3

Rip up the page and start over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rip	rip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Rip	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 page	det
4	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rip	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 start	cc
6	start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Rip	conj
7	over	over	ADV	_	6 start	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip up	imperative	you not said here	the page					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Patient
2	start over	infinitive	you not said here					over property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Give up, some sums just cannot be done by anybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sums	punct
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 sums	det
5	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obl
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 done	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 done	aux:pass
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Give	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 anybody	case
12	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here	some sums					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not do	can · passive	anybody						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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