Test 10 · ★★ · When nobody sits with you: making friends again
Harry's teacher says, "He's a young carer." What does Harry's mate now understand?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: say, be, understand · To what, where: young carer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 23 «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» 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: Harry's teacher says, "He's a young carer."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Harry | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carer | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 carer | punct |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carer | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 carer | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 carer | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 carer | amod |
| 11 | carer | carer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 carer | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 carer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Harry's teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | teacher | a young carer | 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 does Harry's mate now understand?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 understand | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 understand | aux |
| 3 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mate | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Harry | case |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 understand | advmod |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 understand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present · do-support | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Harry is a nurse at the hospital after school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nurse | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nurse | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nurse | det |
| 4 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 hospital | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hospital | det |
| 7 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nurse | nmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 school | case |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hospital | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Harry | a nurse | the hospital after school | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Harry helps look after his ill mum, so friends can visit him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 helps | xcomp |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 mum | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mum | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mum | amod |
| 7 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 visit | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 visit | advmod |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 visit | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 visit | aux |
| 12 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 helps | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 visit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Harry | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | Harry not said here | after Harry's ill mum | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | visit | can | friends | Harry | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Harry doesn't want to be friends with anybody
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 friends | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 friends | cop |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 want | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 anybody | case |
| 9 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 want | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | Harry | with anybody | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | Harry not said here | friends | tree rules |
Option 4
Harry is too busy because of homework
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 busy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 busy | advmod |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 homework | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 because | fixed |
| 7 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 busy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Harry | because homework; busy property | 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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