Test 10 · When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big…
Maddie's mate, Gen Z: "the new baby's getting all the attention, it's giving left out." ("It's giving" means it feels like.) What helped Maddie in the end?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, attention, giving · What happens: get, give, leave out, mean, feel, help · To what, where: attention, Maddie, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 14 «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» 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: Maddie's mate, Gen Z: "the new baby's getting all the attention, it's giving left out."
vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus
2
givein a quote
present · progressive
attention
tree rules
3
leave outin a quote
participle
attention not said here
vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
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.
vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with baby=Theme
Option 3
Being naughty for attention every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Being
be
AUX
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
2 naughty
cop
2
naughty
naughty
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
3
for
for
ADP
_
4 attention
case
4
attention
attention
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 naughty
obl
5
every
every
DET
PronType=Tot
6 day
det
6
day
day
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 naughty
obl:unmarked
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
is
gerund
day
for attention; naughty property
tree rules
Option 4
Hiding the baby's toys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Hiding
hide
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
3 baby
det
3
baby
baby
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 toys
nmod:poss
4
's
's
PART
_
3 baby
case
5
toys
toy
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Hiding
obj
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
hide
gerund
the baby's toys
vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=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.