Test 14 · ★ · Grandparents, divorce and step-families

parents splitting up, pretty sure it's cos of me

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parents, it · What happens: split up, be · To what, where: sure cos

This is test 14 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 splitting	nsubj
2	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 splitting	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cos	punct
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 sure	advmod
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cos	amod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cos	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cos	cop
9	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splitting	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 cos	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split up	gerund	parents						vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	sure cos				of me	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

Yes, it's your fault, so try to be perfect to fix it

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 fault	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fault	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	cop
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fault	nmod:poss
6	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 try	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 try	advmod
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fault	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 perfect	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 perfect	cop
12	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 try	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fix	mark
14	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 perfect	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	your fault		tree rules
2	try	infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive			perfect property	tree rules
4	fix	to-infinitive		fault		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Yes, you should run away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	should	you					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Keep quiet so it doesn't get worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	advcl
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not get	present · do-support	it					bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's never a child's fault, talk to a trusted adult

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	7 fault	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fault	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 fault	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fault	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 child	case
7	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
9	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 fault	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 adult	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adult	det
12	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 adult	amod
13	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	a child's fault		tree rules
2	talk	infinitive			to a trusted adult	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent
3	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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