Test 2 · ★ · Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault
Josh's mate says, "two houses, two toothbrushes, that's well weird, it'll never feel normal." What usually happens?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, that · What happens: say, be, not feel, happen · To what, where: two houses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 12 «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection 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: Josh's mate says, "two houses, two toothbrushes, that's well weird, it'll never feel normal."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Josh | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 houses | punct |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 houses | nummod |
| 8 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 toothbrushes | punct |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 toothbrushes | nummod |
| 11 | toothbrushes | toothbrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 houses | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 weird | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 weird | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 weird | cop |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 weird | advmod |
| 16 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 houses | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feel | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 feel | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 feel | advmod |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 weird | conj |
| 22 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feel | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 houses | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 houses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Josh's mate | two houses and two toothbrushes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent house=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | weird, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not feel in a quote | future | mate | normal property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 usually happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | usually property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
He'll have to choose one house soon
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 | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 choose | mark |
| 5 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 house | nummod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 choose | obj |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 choose | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | He not said here | one house | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Over months, a new kind of normal can feel okay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 2 months | case |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 feel | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 months | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 normal | case |
| 8 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | nmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | aux |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feel | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | a new kind of normal | month | okay property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
It never feels okay, not even after years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 feels | advmod |
| 3 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feels | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 years | advmod |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 years | advmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feels | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | present | It | okay property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
It goes back to one house again within a few weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 goes | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 house | nummod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 goes | advmod |
| 8 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 weeks | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 weeks | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weeks | amod |
| 11 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 goes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | present | It | again; week | to one house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
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