Test 11 · ★ · Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent
Max is in hospital and his class forgets to write. What could they do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Max, class, they · What happens: be, forget, not write, do · To what, where: hospital
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 33 «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine 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: Max is in hospital and his class forgets to write.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hospital | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hospital | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 hospital | case |
| 4 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 forgets | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 class | nmod:poss |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgets | nsubj |
| 8 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hospital | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 write | mark |
| 10 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 forgets | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hospital | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Max | hospital | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | present | Max's class | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not write | to-infinitive | Max's class not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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 could they do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | they | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Send cards or video messages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Send | obj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 messages | cc |
| 4 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 messages | compound |
| 5 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cards | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | cards or video messages | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Visit with a cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 cold | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cold | det |
| 4 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Visit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | imperative | you not said here | with a cold | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with cold=Co-Agent |
Option 3
Nothing, hospitals don't allow post
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 hospitals | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 allow | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 allow | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 allow | advmod |
| 6 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 allow | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · do-support | Nothing hospitals | post | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Wait until he's back and say hello then
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 back | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 back | cop |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Wait | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 say | cc |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 7 say | obj |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 say | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | he | back property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |
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