Test 12 · A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents

mum n dad shouted all night, was it cos of me?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: shout, be · To what, where: it

This is test 12 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	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouted	nsubj
2	n	n	X	_	3 dad	compound
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mum	conj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouted	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 it	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 it	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	obl
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 me	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 cos	fixed
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	mum and n dad				night	cos me	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		it					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Maybe, so be quiet forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 quiet	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Maybe	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 quiet	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 quiet	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					forever, maybe, quiet property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, children cause most arguments between parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cause	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	nsubj
4	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 arguments	amod
6	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 parents	case
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	children	most arguments				between parents	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition argument=Patient

Option 3

Yes, if you were noisy that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 noisy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 noisy	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 noisy	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 noisy	cop
6	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noisy	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	you				day	noisy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, parents' arguments are never the child's fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 fault	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arguments	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 parents	case
5	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fault	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fault	cop
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 fault	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fault	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 child	case
11	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	parents's arguments	the child's fault					tree rules
2	argue		parents						nom argument «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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