Test 9 · ★ · Punctuation that changes meaning
"I find inspiration in cooking my family and my dog." What is the fix?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, fix · What happens: find, cook, be · To what, where: inspiration, family
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 14 «Punctuation that changes meaning» of the language 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: "I find inspiration in cooking my family and my dog."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | inspiration | inspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 cooking | mark |
| 6 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 find | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cooking | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dog | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dog | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 family | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present | I | inspiration | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inspiration=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cook in a quote | gerund | I not said here | my family and my dog | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent family=Patient |
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 fix?
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 | 4 fix | det |
| 4 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fix | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
I find inspiration, in cooking my family and my dog.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inspiration | inspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cooking | punct |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 cooking | mark |
| 6 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 find | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cooking | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dog | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dog | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 family | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | I | inspiration | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inspiration=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cook | gerund | I not said here | my family and my dog | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent family=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
I find inspiration in cooking, my family and my dog.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inspiration | inspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cooking | case |
| 5 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 family | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cooking | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dog | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dog | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cooking | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | I | inspiration | cooking and my family and my dog | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inspiration=Topic |
Option 3
I find inspiration in cooking my family, and my dog.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inspiration | inspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 cooking | mark |
| 5 | cooking | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 inspiration | acl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cooking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dog | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dog | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dog | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | I | inspiration | my dog obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inspiration=Topic | |||
| 2 | cook | gerund | inspiration not said here | my family | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent family=Patient |
Option 4
I find, inspiration in cooking my family and my dog.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 inspiration | punct |
| 4 | inspiration | inspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 cooking | mark |
| 6 | cooking | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 inspiration | acl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cooking | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dog | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dog | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 family | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | I | inspiration | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inspiration=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cook | gerund | inspiration not said here | my family and my dog | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent family=Patient |
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