Test 5 · ★ · Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent
Grandad is dying and you don't know what to say. What helps?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, you · What happens: die, not know, say, help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Grandad is dying and you don't know what to say.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dying | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dying | aux |
| 3 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 know | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dying | conj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 say | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 know | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · progressive | Grandad | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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 helps?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Stay away so you don't upset him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Stay | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 7 upset | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 upset | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 upset | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 upset | advmod |
| 7 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stay | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 upset | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not upset | present · do-support | you | him = he | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
Option 2
Say nothing, he can't hear anything now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Say | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hear | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hear | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hear | advmod |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Say | conj |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 hear | obj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 hear | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not hear | can | he | anything | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
Option 3
Pretend nothing's happening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretend | pretend | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 nothing | amod |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 nothing | case |
| 4 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 nothing | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Say what you want, hold his hand, and it's fine to cry
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 want | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hold | punct |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fine | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fine | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fine | expl |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fine | cop |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cry | mark |
| 15 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fine | csubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | his hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP 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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