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Test 2 · ★ · Police, courts and prison

Your mate dials 999 "for a laugh" and hangs up. Why is that serious?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: dial, hang up, be · To what, where: 999

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 30 «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life 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: Your mate dials 999 "for a laugh" and hangs up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dials	nsubj
3	dials	dial	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	999	999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 dials	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dials	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 laugh	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 laugh	det
8	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dials	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 laugh	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hangs	cc
11	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dials	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 hangs	compound:prt
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dials	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dial	present	Your mate	999				for a laugh	tree rules
2	hang up	present	Your mate not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «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: Why is that serious?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 serious	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 serious	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 serious	mark
4	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 serious	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It costs the police lots of petrol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 costs	nsubj
2	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lots	det
4	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lots	compound
5	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 costs	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 petrol	case
7	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	It	the police lots of petrol					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lot=Value

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It blocks the line for people in real danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blocks	nsubj
2	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 line	det
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blocks	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blocks	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 danger	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 danger	amod
9	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	It	the line				for people in real danger	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer line=Theme

Option 3

It is only serious after midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 serious	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 serious	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 serious	advmod
4	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 serious	obl

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

Option 4

It is fine as long as you hang up fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 hang	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hang	nsubj
8	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 long	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 hang	compound:prt
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine, long property	tree rules
2	hang up	present	you					fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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