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Test 8 · ★ · Grandparents, divorce and step-families

A grandmother tells the story of moving to Canada as a girl. Why should her grandchildren ask questions?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandmother, story, grandchildren · What happens: tell, move, ask · To what, where: story, Canada, questions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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 grandmother tells the story of moving to Canada as a girl.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grandmother	det
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 moving	mark
7	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 story	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Canada	case
9	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 moving	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 girl	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moving	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a grandmother	the story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	move	gerund	the story not said here		Canada			as a girl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to canada=Result

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: Why should her grandchildren ask questions?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ask	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandchildren	nmod:poss
4	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	should	girl's grandchildren	questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

The options

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

Her memories are family history that only she can tell

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 memories	nmod:poss
2	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 history	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 history	cop
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 history	compound
5	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tell	obj
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 tell	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 history	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Her memories	family history					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	can	she	family history					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient

Option 2

So she will tell the story less often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	she	the story				often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

Option 3

It is the only way to pass a history test

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	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pass	mark
7	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 test	det
9	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 test	compound
10	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pass	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the only way					tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive		a history test					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme test=Trajectory

Option 4

Older people only like children who ask them lots of questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ask	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 children	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 people	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ask	nsubj
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ask	obj
9	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ask	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 questions	case
11	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Older people like children	lots of questions	children = child				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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