Test 1 · ★ · Grandparents, divorce and step-families
A girl in Edinburgh feels her parents split up because she argued with her brother so much. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, parents · What happens: feel, split up, argue, be
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 96 «Grandparents, divorce and step-families» 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 girl in Edinburgh feels her parents split up because she argued with her brother so much.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Edinburgh | case |
| 4 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 split | nsubj |
| 8 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feels | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 split | compound:prt |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 argued | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 argued | nsubj |
| 12 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 split | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 brother | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 argued | obl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 argued | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a girl in Edinburgh | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | split up | past | girl's parents | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | past | girl | with girl's brother | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with brother=Co-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.
Sentence 2: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Her brother caused it, not her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caused | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 her | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 her | advmod |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 caused | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | Her brother | it | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient |
Option 2
If she is good from now on, they will surely get back together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 good | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 good | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | advcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 on | case |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 on | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 good | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | she | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get back | future | they | surely, together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Divorce is about the grown-ups, never the children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ups | compound |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ups | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 ups | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ups | det |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ups | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 7 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 children | punct |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 children | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ups | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | about the Divorce grown ups and the children | tree rules |
Option 4
Her arguing caused it, so she must stop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 arguing | nmod:poss |
| 2 | arguing | arguing | NOUN | _ | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caused | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 stop | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stop | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stop | aux |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 caused | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | Her arguing | it | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stop | must | arguing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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