Test 7 · ★ · Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent

"Brother gets all the attention since he got ill, I hate it" — what's the best step?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Brother, I · What happens: get, hate, be · To what, where: attention, best step · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct
2	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 attention	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 attention	det
6	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obj
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 got	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	advcl
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hate	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 hate	nsubj
13	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hate	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 hate	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 step	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 step	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 step	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 step	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 step	amod
21	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present	Brother	all attention		tree rules
2	get in a quote	past	Brother		ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	hate in a quote	present	I	attention		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is a	present		the best step		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 · ✓ the right answer

Tell your parents how you feel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 parents	nmod:poss
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feel	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		your parents				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic
2	feel	present	you						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Pretend to be ill too, to get some attention

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 ill	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pretend	xcomp
5	too	too	ADV	_	1 Pretend	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pretend	conj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 attention	det
10	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here		ill property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	some attention		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus

Option 3

Break his toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 toys	nmod:poss
3	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	imperative	you not said here	his toys					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toy=Patient

Option 4

Keep it secret forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				forever, secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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