Test 2 · ★ · Grandparents, divorce and step-families

At your aunt's house, dinner is eaten at the table with no screens, but at home you eat watching TV. What is the kind thing to do there?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, kind thing · What happens: eat, watch, be, do · To what, where: dinner, house, home, TV

This is test 2 · ★ 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: At your aunt's house, dinner is eaten at the table with no screens, but at home you eat watching TV.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	5 house	case
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 aunt	nmod:poss
3	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 aunt	case
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eaten	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eaten	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	aux:pass
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eaten	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 screens	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 screens	det
15	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eaten	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 eat	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 home	case
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 eat	nsubj
21	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	parataxis
22	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 eat	xcomp
23	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 watching	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present · passive		dinner	your aunt's house	at the table; with no screens	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	eat	present	you		home		tree rules
3	watch	gerund	you not said here	TV			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme

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 the kind thing to do there?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 do	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kind thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the kind thing not said here			there			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Eat in the other room so you can watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 room	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 room	amod
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obl
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 watch	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 watch	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 watch	aux
9	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here			the other room			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	can	you						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Eat at the table with no screen, as your aunt asks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 table	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 table	det
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 screen	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 screen	det
7	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asks	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 asks	mark
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 aunt	nmod:poss
11	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asks	nsubj
12	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here			the table		with no screen	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	your aunt						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Bring the tablet to the table, because it is allowed at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tablet	det
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 allowed	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 allowed	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 allowed	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 allowed	aux:pass
11	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Bring	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	the tablet		the table			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme to table=Destination
2	allow	present · passive		tablet		home			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 4

Tell your aunt that her rule is old-fashioned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 aunt	nmod:poss
3	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 fashioned	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 rule	nmod:poss
6	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fashioned	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fashioned	cop
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fashioned	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
10	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	your aunt		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aunt=Recipient
2	is	present	her rule		fashioned property	tree rules
3	rule		her = she			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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