Test 5 · A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents
Why does a child in a family with a new baby still matter just as much?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, matter · To what, where: child, family
This is test 5 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 does | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 matter | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 family | det |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 baby | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 baby | amod |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obl |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 matter | advmod |
| 13 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 matter | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 matter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | a child | a family | with a new baby | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | matter | present | still | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1
The baby will soon be sent to live elsewhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 sent | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | xcomp |
| 9 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 8 live | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future · passive | the baby | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | the baby not said here | elsewhere property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Older children do more chores than the baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 chores | amod |
| 5 | chores | chore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 do | obj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 baby | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 baby | det |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Older children | more chores | than the baby | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Parents' love does not run out when a baby comes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 love | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Parents | case |
| 3 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 run | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 run | advmod |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 run | compound:prt |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 comes | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 baby | det |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run out | present · do-support | Parents's love | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present | a baby | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | love | Parents | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Parents love their children only for being useful around the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 children | nmod:poss |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | obj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 useful | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 useful | mark |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 useful | cop |
| 8 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 love | parataxis |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 useful | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | Parents | Parents's children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the house | useful 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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