Test 13 · A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents

watching my lil sis for 5 min while mum's outside, can i go upstairs

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: i, mum · What happens: watch, be, go · To what, where: lil sis

This is test 13 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	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 go	advcl
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sis	nmod:poss
3	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sis	amod
4	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 watching	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 min	case
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 min	nummod
7	min	minute	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	1 watching	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 outside	mark
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 outside	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 outside	cop
11	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 watching	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 watching	punct
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	15 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund	i not said here	my lil sis	minute		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sis=Theme
2	is	present	mum			outside property	tree rules
3	go	can	i			upstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yes, if she is watching TV

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 watching	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 watching	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watching	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 watching	aux
6	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present · progressive	she	TV					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme

Option 2

Yes, she will be totally fine on her own for 5 min

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fine	cop
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 fine	advmod
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fine	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 min	case
12	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 min	nummod
13	min	min	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	she			her own		for 5 min; fine, totally property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Keep her in sight and call mum if anything goes wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 sight	case
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 call	cc
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 goes	mark
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 goes	nsubj
10	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 call	advcl
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 goes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	her = she		sight		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in sight=Location
2	call	infinitive	you not said here		mum			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
3	go a condition, not said to happen	present	anything				wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, lock her in the room first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 lock	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lock	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lock	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 lock	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	imperative	you not said here	her = she		the room		first property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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