Test 9 · Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

Mia thinks her parents love her brother more because he gets more help with reading. What is most likely true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, parents, he · What happens: think, love, get, be · To what, where: brother, more help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: Mia thinks her parents love her brother more because he gets more help with reading.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 parents	nmod:poss
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	nsubj
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 love	obj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 love	advmod
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 gets	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gets	nsubj
11	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 love	advcl
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 help	amod
13	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gets	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 reading	case
15	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 help	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Mia			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	love	present	Mia's parents	Mia's brother		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
3	get	present	he	more help	with reading	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus

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 most likely true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 true	advmod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely, true property	tree rules

The options

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

They love both, and he simply needs more help right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 love	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 needs	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 needs	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 needs	nsubj
7	simply	simply	ADV	_	8 needs	advmod
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 love	parataxis
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 help	amod
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needs	obj
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 now	advmod
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 needs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	They	both					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer both=Stimulus
2	need	present	he	more help			now	simply property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 2

She must have done something bad to make them stop loving her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 done	obj
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 done	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp
11	loving	love	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stop	xcomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 loving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	must · perfect	She	something	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	She not said here	them = they	tree rules
3	stop	infinitive	them = they not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	love	gerund	them = they not said here	her = she	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 3

They do love him more than they love her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 love	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 love	aux
3	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 love	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 love	advmod
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 love	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 love	nsubj
8	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 love	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present · do-support	They	him = he					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	love	present	they	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 4

Parents always love the youngest child best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 love	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 love	advmod
3	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 love	obj
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 love	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Parents	the youngest child				always, good property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

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