Test 4 · ★★ · Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and i…
Lily's older brother: "Gran's doing it on purpose, she's well annoying." What's the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gran, older brother, truth · What happens: do, be · To what, where: it, purpose
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» 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: Lily's older brother: "Gran's doing it on purpose, she's well annoying."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lily | case |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 annoying | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 doing | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 doing | punct |
| 7 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 doing | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 doing | aux |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 brother | acl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 doing | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 purpose | case |
| 12 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 annoying | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 annoying | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 annoying | cop |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 annoying | advmod |
| 17 | annoying | annoying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 annoying | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 annoying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | Gran | it | purpose | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Lily's older brother | annoying, well property | 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.
Sentence 2: What's the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The forgetting is the illness, not Gran being difficult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 forgetting | det |
| 2 | forgetting | forgetting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 illness | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 illness | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 illness | det |
| 5 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gran | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 Gran | advmod |
| 8 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 difficult | nsubj |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 difficult | cop |
| 10 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 illness | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the forgetting | the illness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | Gran | the illness not said here | difficult property | tree rules |
Option 2
Gran could stop if she just tried harder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | aux |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 tried | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 tried | advmod |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | advcl |
| 8 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 tried | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | could | Gran | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | try a condition, not said to happen | past | Gran | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
He's right; she repeats things to wind them up
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 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 repeats | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 repeats | nsubj |
| 6 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | advcl |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 repeats | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wind | mark |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | nmod |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wind | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 repeats | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | repeat up | present | she | things wind | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
Option 4
Gran only ever forgets the things she doesn't really care about
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forgets | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 forgets | advmod |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 forgets | advmod |
| 4 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 things | det |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forgets | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 care | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 care | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 care | advmod |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 care | advmod |
| 11 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 care | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | Gran | the things | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not care | present · do-support | Gran | the things not said here | tree rules |
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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