Test 11 · ★★ · Being a good grown-up
Your mate broke the class plant pot and hid it behind the bin. What would a good grown-up advise?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: break, hide, grow up · To what, where: plant pot, pot, bin
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Being a good grown-up» 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 broke the class plant pot and hid it behind the bin.
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 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 5 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plant | compound |
| 6 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | compound |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hid | cc |
| 9 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hid | obj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 bin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bin | det |
| 13 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hid | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Your mate | the plant pot | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | Your mate not said here | pot | the bin | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient behind bin=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: What would a good grown-up advise?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 advise | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 advise | amod |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 advise | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 7 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grown | compound:prt |
| 8 | advise | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 would | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Wait until the end of term to say
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 term | case |
| 6 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | until the end of term | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Hide it better so nobody finds it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hide | obj |
| 3 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Hide | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 6 finds | mark |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 finds | nsubj |
| 6 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hide | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 finds | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | it | well property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | present | nobody | it | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 3
Blame the class hamster for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hamster | det |
| 3 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hamster | compound |
| 4 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blame | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Blame | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | imperative | you not said here | the class hamster | for hamster | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hamster=Theme for it=Attribute |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Own up quickly so it's easier to fix
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Own | own | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Own | compound:prt |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Own | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 7 easier | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 easier | expl |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 easier | cop |
| 7 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Own | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fix | mark |
| 9 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easier | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | imperative | you not said here | quickly property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fix | to-infinitive | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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