Test 4 · ★ · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners
The family stands up, bags ready, then everyone suddenly sits down in silence. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, everyone · What happens: stand up, sit down · To what, where: bags, silence
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 30 «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» of the Ukrainian street 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: The family stands up, bags ready, then everyone suddenly sits down in silence.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stands | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bags | punct |
| 6 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stands | obl |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stands | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sits | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 sits | advmod |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 sits | nsubj |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 sits | advmod |
| 12 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stands | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sits | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 silence | case |
| 15 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sits | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | present | the family | bags | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sit down | present | everyone | silence | then | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location |
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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Someone forgot the keys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 keys | det |
| 4 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 forgot | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Someone | the keys | tree rules |
Option 2
They're waiting for a taxi only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 waiting | aux |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 taxi | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 taxi | det |
| 6 | taxi | taxi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiting | obl |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 waiting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · progressive | They | for a taxi | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
prysIdmo na dorIzhku: sitting before a journey for luck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prysIdmo | prysIdmo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | na | na | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 prysIdmo | flat:foreign |
| 3 | dorIzhku | dorIzhku | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 prysIdmo | flat:foreign |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 prysIdmo | punct |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 prysIdmo | acl |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 journey | det |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 luck | case |
| 10 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | prysIdmo not said here | a journey | for luck | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before journey=Location |
Option 4
They're too tired to go
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 tired | advmod |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tired | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | They not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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