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Test 3 · Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions

Big sister, fed up: "Shut it about the cat, Nan, it's three streets away having a nap." Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat, three streets · What happens: feed up, shut, be, have · To what, where: Big sister, it, three streets, nap

This is test 3 of lesson 161 «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world 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: Big sister, fed up: "Shut it about the cat, Nan, it's three streets away having a nap."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sister	amod
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct
4	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sister	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 fed	compound:prt
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Shut	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Shut	punct
8	Shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sister	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Shut	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 cat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Shut	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Nan	punct
14	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cat	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 streets	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 streets	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 streets	cop
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 streets	nummod
19	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Shut	obl
20	away	away	ADV	_	21 having	advmod
21	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 streets	acl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 nap	det
23	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 having	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed up	participle		Big sister not said here					vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	shut in a quote	infinitive		it				about the cat	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	cat	three streets					tree rules
4	have in a quote	gerund	three streets not said here	a nap				away property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
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						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Black cats only bring bad luck on Fridays, not today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bring	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bring	advmod
4	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 luck	amod
6	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Fridays	case
8	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 bring	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 today	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 today	advmod
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Black cats	bad luck			friday; today		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme

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

The cat had nothing to do with the dropped jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 jar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jar	det
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 jar	amod
10	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the cat	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	the cat not said here	nothing not said here				with the dropped jar	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drop	participle							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The cat made Nan so nervous that she dropped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 nervous	advmod
6	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 dropped	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dropped	nsubj
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nervous	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the cat	Nan				nervous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nan=Product
2	drop	past	cat	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Jars break much more often in the hour after lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 break	nsubj
2	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 often	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	2 break	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 break	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 lunch	case
10	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	Jars				after lunch; hour	often property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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