Test 5 · ★★ · Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, stea…

«my gran's gran did washing all monday, why so long?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran, best answer · What happens: wash, be

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 83 «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» of the history 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: «my gran's gran did washing all monday, why so long?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 washing	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 gran	nmod:poss
3	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gran	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 gran	case
5	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 washing	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 washing	aux
7	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 monday	det
9	monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 washing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 long	advmod
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 washing	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 washing	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 washing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash in a quote	past · do-support	my gran's gran				monday	long property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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 the best answer?

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 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She was very slow because she chatted to the neighbours all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 chatted	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chatted	nsubj
7	chatted	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 neighbours	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 neighbours	det
10	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chatted	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 time	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chatted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					slow property	tree rules
2	chat speech: other	past	she				time	to the neighbours	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Monday was the only day of the week there was any water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 day	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	obl:unmarked
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Monday	the only day			week		tree rules
2	be	past	any water			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Clothes had to be washed in the river and beaten with stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 washed	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 washed	aux:pass
5	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 washed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 beaten	cc
10	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 washed	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 stones	case
12	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Clothes			tree rules
2	wash	to-infinitive · passive	Clothes not said here	the river		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»
3	beat	participle	Clothes not said here		with stones	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stone=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Everything was boiled, scrubbed, mangled and ironed by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 boiled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boiled	aux:pass
3	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scrubbed	punct
5	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 boiled	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mangled	punct
7	mangled	mangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 boiled	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ironed	cc
9	ironed	iron	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 boiled	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 hand	case
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ironed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	boil	past · passive	Everything		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	scrub	participle			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	mangle	participle			vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	iron	participle		by hand	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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