Test 5 · My dad could lift a car: playground boasting

«Ethan's been to Disneyland fifty times and I've never been, it's not fair» What is likely true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ethan, I, Disneyland · What happens: be, not be

This is test 5 of lesson 48 «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Disneyland	punct
2	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Disneyland	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Disneyland	cop
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Disneyland	cop
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Disneyland	case
6	Disneyland	Disneyland	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 true	nsubj
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Disneyland	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fair	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 fair	nsubj
11	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fair	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 fair	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 fair	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 been	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fair	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fair	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 fair	advmod
18	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Disneyland	conj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 Disneyland	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 true	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 true	cop
22	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 true	amod
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Ethan	time	to Disneyland	tree rules
2	not is in a quote	present · perfect	I		fair property	tree rules
3	is	present	Disneyland		true property	tree rules

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

He has never been, he just saw it on telly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 been	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 been	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 saw	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 been	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 telly	case
11	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle	he			telly		see property	tree rules

Option 2

He has been fifty times exactly and has kept all the tickets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 times	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 times	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 times	cop
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 kept	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	aux
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 times	acl:relcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 tickets	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tickets	det
12	tickets	ticket	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present · perfect	He	fifty times					tree rules
2	keep	present · perfect	fifty times not said here	all tickets				exactly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme

Option 3

He goes every week and lives at the hotel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 week	det
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lives	cc
6	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 hotel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hotel	det
9	hotel	hotel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	He				week		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	He not said here			the hotel			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hotel=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He has been a couple of times and it's his favourite thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 couple	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 couple	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 couple	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 couple	det
5	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 times	case
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 couple	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thing	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thing	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	cop
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 thing	nmod:poss
12	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 couple	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present · perfect	He	a couple and his favourite thing			time		tree rules
2	is a	present	it	his favourite thing					tree rules

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