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Test 6 · When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big…

Finn's mate goes, "your parents arguing about your phone means they're splitting up, deffo." ("Deffo" means definitely.) Is that true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, parents, arguing, Deffo, that · What happens: go, argue, mean, split up, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Finn's mate goes, "your parents arguing about your phone means they're splitting up, deffo."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Finn	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 arguing	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 arguing	punct
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 arguing	nsubj
9	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 means	csubj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 phone	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 phone	nmod:poss
12	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arguing	obl
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	parataxis
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 splitting	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 splitting	aux
16	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 means	ccomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 splitting	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 deffo	punct
19	deffo	deffo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 splitting	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Finn's mate						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	argue speech: disagree in a quote	gerund	your parents					about your phone	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about phone=Topic
3	mean in a quote	present	arguing						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	split up in a quote	present · progressive	parents = parent						vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: ("Deffo" means definitely.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Deffo	punct
3	Deffo	Deffo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Deffo	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	5 means	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Deffo					definitely property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Is that true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 true	nsubj
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, if the argument is about a phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 phone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 phone	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 phone	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 argument	det
5	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 phone	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 phone	cop
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 phone	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 phone	det
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the argument					about a phone	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No; parents can disagree about rules, that's all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 disagree	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disagree	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 disagree	aux
5	disagree	disagree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 rules	case
7	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disagree	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 all	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 all	cop
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 disagree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disagree	can	parents	all				about rules	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about rule=Topic

Option 3

No, because parents never argue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 argue	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 argue	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 argue	mark
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 argue	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 argue	advmod
6	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not argue speech: disagree	present	parents						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes; any argument at all means they'll split up soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 means	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 argument	det
4	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 argument	nmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 split	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 split	aux
10	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 split	compound:prt
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 split	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	any argument at all						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	split up	future	they					soon property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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