Test 17 · ★ · Grandparents, divorce and step-families

heard Lily's mum n dad are splitting up cos she failed her spelling test, her mate told me

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lily, mate · What happens: hear, split up, fail, tell, test · To what, where: mum, spelling test, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mum	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Lily	case
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj
5	n	n	ADP	_	6 dad	case
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obl
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 splitting	aux
8	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 heard	ccomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 splitting	compound:prt
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 failed	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 failed	nsubj
12	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	ccomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 test	nmod:poss
14	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 test	compound
15	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 failed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mate	nmod:poss
18	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past		Lily's mum		n dad	tree rules
2	split up	present · progressive					vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fail	past	Lily	Lily's spelling test			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	past	Lily's mate		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	test		Lily				nom test «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Do not spread it; divorce is never the child's fault, so that part is surely untrue

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 fault	punct
6	divorce	divorce	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fault	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fault	cop
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 fault	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fault	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 child	case
12	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 untrue	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 untrue	mark
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 part	det
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 untrue	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 untrue	cop
18	surely	surely	ADV	_	19 untrue	advmod
19	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spread	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	not is a	present	divorce	the child's fault		tree rules
3	is	present	that part		surely, untrue property	tree rules

Option 2

It is true, bad marks can cause a divorce

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 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	_	8 cause	punct
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 marks	amod
6	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cause	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cause	aux
8	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 divorce	det
10	divorce	divorce	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	cause	can	bad marks	a divorce					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition divorce=Patient

Option 3

It is true, so Lily should study harder now so that her parents stay together

The tree, 15 words

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 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	_	8 study	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 study	advmod
6	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 study	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 study	aux
8	study	study	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	parataxis
9	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 study	xcomp
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 study	advmod
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 stay	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 parents	nmod:poss
14	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stay	nsubj
15	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 study	advcl
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		true property	tree rules
2	study	should	Lily	now	hard property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stay together	present	Lily's parents		together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Pass it on to everyone so that Lily knows how many people understand her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 everyone	case
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Pass	obl
6	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 knows	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 so	fixed
8	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 knows	nsubj
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 understand	advcl
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 knows	obj
13	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it	everyone	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to everyone=Destination
2	know	present	Lily	many people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
3	understand	present		Lily		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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