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Test 2 · A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents

A baby is crying and has just been fed. What might it be saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baby, it · What happens: cry, feed, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: A baby is crying and has just been fed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crying	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crying	aux
4	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fed	cc
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fed	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 fed	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 fed	aux:pass
9	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 crying	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present · progressive	a baby						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feed	present · perfect · passive	a baby not said here						vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»

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 might it be saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 saying	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saying	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 saying	aux
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	might · progressive	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It does not love its own family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 love	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 love	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 love	advmod
4	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 family	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 family	amod
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not love	present · do-support	It	its own family					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is tired or uncomfortable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 uncomfortable	cc
5	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tired	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					tired property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

It wants to play a video game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 play	mark
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 game	det
6	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 game	compound
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive		a video game					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 4

It is angry with its big brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 brother	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					with its big brother; angry property	tree rules

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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