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Test 8 · ★★ · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

Nan's mum put sugar on cuts. Your cousin says that's "total rubbish". What's fairer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, cousin, that · What happens: put, say, be · To what, where: sugar, cuts, total rubbish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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: Nan's mum put sugar on cuts.

nmod:posscasensubjobjcaseoblpunctrootNanPROPN'sPARTmumNOUNputVERBsugarNOUNonADPcutsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NanNanPROPNNumber=Sing3 mumnmod:poss
2's'sPART_1 Nancase
3mummumNOUNNumber=Sing4 putnsubj
4putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5sugarsugarNOUNNumber=Sing4 putobj
6ononADP_7 cutscase
7cutscutNOUNNumber=Plur4 putobl
8..PUNCT_4 putpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1putpastNan's mumsugarcutsvn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme on cut=Destination

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: Your cousin says that's "total rubbish".

nmod:possnsubjnsubjcoppunctamodccomppunctpunctrootYourPRONcousinNOUNsaysVERBthatPRON'sAUX"PUNCTtotalADJrubbishNOUN"PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 cousinnmod:poss
2cousincousinNOUNNumber=Sing3 saysnsubj
3sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem8 rubbishnsubj
5'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 rubbishcop
6""PUNCT_8 rubbishpunct
7totaltotalADJDegree=Pos8 rubbishamod
8rubbishrubbishNOUNNumber=Sing3 saysccomp
9""PUNCT_8 rubbishpunct
10..PUNCT_3 sayspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentYour cousinvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2is a in a quotepresentthattotal rubbishtree rules

Sentence 3: What's fairer?

nsubjcoppunctrootWhatPRON'sAUXfairerADJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int3 fairernsubj
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 fairercop
3fairerfairADJDegree=Cmprootroot
4??PUNCT_3 fairerpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentfair propertytree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cuts should never be cleaned

nsubj:passauxadvmodaux:passrootCutsNOUNshouldAUXneverADVbeAUXcleanedVERB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1CutscutNOUNNumber=Plur5 cleanednsubj:pass
2shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin5 cleanedaux
3neverneverADVPronType=Neg5 cleanedadvmod
4bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf5 cleanedaux:pass
5cleanedcleanVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not cleanshould · passiveCutsvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Honey has some real medical use, but at home clean and cover a cut

The tree, 14 words
nsubjnsubjamodamodobjpunctcccaseoblparataxisccconjdetobjrootHoneyNOUNhasVERBsomeDETrealADJmedicalADJuseNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJatADPhomeNOUNcleanADJandCCONJcoverVERBaDETcutNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoneyhoneyNOUNNumber=Sing2 hasnsubj
2hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3somesomeDETPronType=Ind6 usensubj
4realrealADJDegree=Pos6 useamod
5medicalmedicalADJDegree=Pos6 useamod
6useuseNOUNNumber=Sing2 hasobj
7,,PUNCT_11 cleanpunct
8butbutCCONJ_11 cleancc
9atatADP_10 homecase
10homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing11 cleanobl
11cleancleanADJDegree=Pos2 hasparataxis
12andandCCONJ_13 covercc
13covercoverVERBVerbForm=Inf11 cleanconj
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 cutdet
15cutcutNOUNNumber=Sing13 coverobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentHoneyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2usesometree rules
3coverinfinitiveHoney not said herea cutvn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cut=Destination

Option 3

It's total rubbish, honey never helped anyone

nsubjcopamodnsubjpunctconjadvmodobjrootItPRON'sAUXtotalADJrubbishNOUN,PUNCThoneyNOUNneverADVhelpedVERBanyonePRON
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 rubbishnsubj
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 rubbishcop
3totaltotalADJDegree=Pos4 rubbishamod
4rubbishrubbishNOUNNumber=Sing8 helpednsubj
5,,PUNCT_6 honeypunct
6honeyhoneyNOUNNumber=Sing4 rubbishconj
7neverneverADVPronType=Neg8 helpedadvmod
8helpedhelpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9anyoneanyonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind8 helpedobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentIttotal rubbish and honeytree rules
2not helppasttotal rubbish and honeyanyonevn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary

Option 4

Nan is right, sugar heals everything

nsubjcoppunctnsubjparataxisobjrootNanPROPNisAUXrightADJ,PUNCTsugarNOUNhealsVERBeverythingPRON
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NanNanPROPNNumber=Sing3 rightnsubj
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 rightcop
3rightrightADJDegree=Posrootroot
4,,PUNCT_6 healspunct
5sugarsugarNOUNNumber=Sing6 healsnsubj
6healshealVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 rightparataxis
7everythingeverythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot6 healsobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentNanright propertytree rules
2healpresentsugareverythingvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

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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