Test 6 · ★★ · Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental contr…
Mum, cross: "Bloody autoplay, I swear I turned it off." What might have happened?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: swear, turn off, happen · To what, where: Bloody autoplay, autoplay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» 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: Mum, cross: "Bloody autoplay, I swear I turned it off."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cross | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| 3 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 autoplay | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 autoplay | punct |
| 6 | Bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 autoplay | amod |
| 7 | autoplay | autoplay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cross | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swear | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 swear | nsubj |
| 10 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 autoplay | acl:relcl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 swear | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turned | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 turned | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear in a quote | present | I | Bloody autoplay not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn off in a quote | past | I | autoplay | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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: What might have happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | aux |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | might · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Mum must have pressed play by accident twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pressed | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pressed | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pressed | aux |
| 4 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pressed | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 accident | case |
| 7 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pressed | obl |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 pressed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | must · perfect | Mum | play | by accident; twice property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The setting was turned back on or never saved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 setting | det |
| 2 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | aux:pass |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 or | case |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 turned | obl |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 saved | advmod |
| 9 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 turned | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past · passive | the setting | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not save | participle | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Autoplay can never be turned off in any app
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autoplay | Autoplay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 turned | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turned | aux:pass |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 turned | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 app | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 app | det |
| 9 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not turn off | can · passive | Autoplay | any app | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
The tablet chose to disobey Mum on purpose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tablet | det |
| 2 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 disobey | mark |
| 5 | disobey | disobey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chose | xcomp |
| 6 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disobey | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 purpose | case |
| 8 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disobey | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | the tablet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | disobey | to-infinitive | the tablet not said here | Mum | purpose | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/t6/