Test 10 · Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas

Your toddler brother is near a big build with tiny pieces. What do you do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toddler brother, you · What happens: be, do · To what, where: big build

This is test 10 of lesson 32 «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts 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 toddler brother is near a big build with tiny pieces.

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	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brother	compound
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 build	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 build	cop
5	near	near	ADP	_	8 build	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 build	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 build	amod
8	build	build	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pieces	amod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 build	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your toddler brother			a big build		with tiny pieces	tree rules

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 do you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Let him play with them, because he will just spit them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 play	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spit	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 spit	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spit	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 spit	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 spit	advmod
11	spit	spit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spit	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 spit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he		tree rules
2	play	infinitive	him = he not said here		with them = they	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme
3	spit out	future	he	them = they		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Give him a few small pieces to keep him busy and quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pieces	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pieces	amod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pieces	amod
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keep	obj
10	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 quiet	cc
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 busy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a few small pieces	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he				busy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Nothing at all, because toddlers are careful with small things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 careful	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 careful	mark
6	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 careful	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 careful	cop
8	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 things	case
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 careful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	toddlers					with small things; careful property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Move the tiny pieces away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pieces	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pieces	amod
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Move	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	imperative	you not said here	the tiny pieces				away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Theme

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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