Test 11 · A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents

baby crying again, whats wrong w him

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baby · What happens: cry

This is test 11 of lesson 95 «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrong	nsubj
2	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 baby	acl
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 crying	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whats	punct
5	whats	what	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrong	nsubj
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	w	with	ADP	Abbr=Yes	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	baby not said here				again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 · ✓ the right answer

He may be hungry, tired or uncomfortable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hungry	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 uncomfortable	cc
8	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hungry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	may	He	hungry property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here		tree rules
3	be		He not said here		tree rules

Option 2

He is crying to be naughty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 crying	aux
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 naughty	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 naughty	cop
6	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crying	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present · progressive	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	He not said here					naughty property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He cries because he does not like you or your face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cries	nsubj
2	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 like	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 like	advmod
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cries	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 face	cc
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 you	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not like	present · do-support	he	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme

Option 4

Babies cry for no reason at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cry	nsubj
2	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 reason	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 reason	det
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cry	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 cry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	Babies			all		for no reason	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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