Test 20 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

Harry slipped on the ice at the bus stop and landed on his bum, everyone saw, haha shall i tell nan

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Harry, everyone, i · What happens: slip, land, see, tell · To what, where: ice, bum, nan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 20 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ice	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ice	det
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 stop	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stop	det
8	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	compound
9	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 landed	cc
11	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slipped	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 bum	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bum	nmod:poss
14	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 landed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slipped	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
19	haha	haha	INTJ	_	22 tell	discourse
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
21	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	nsubj
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 saw	conj
23	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slip	past	Harry		the ice	at the bus stop	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	land	past	Harry not said here		Harry's bum		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on bum=Destination
3	see	past	everyone				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	shall	i	nan			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nan=Recipient

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Tell people he did it on purpose to show off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	iobj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 show	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	past	he	it		purpose	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	show off	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Tell everyone at school so they laugh too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 laugh	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laugh	nsubj
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone	school			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	laugh	present	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Post it so the whole town knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Post	post	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Post	obj
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 knows	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	amod
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knows	nsubj
7	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Post	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	know	present	the whole town						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Telling your nan is fine if you ask whether he is hurt, not to laugh at him

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fine	csubj
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 ask	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 ask	nsubj
8	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	advcl
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 hurt	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hurt	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hurt	aux:pass
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ask	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laugh	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 laugh	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 laugh	mark
16	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fine	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		your nan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nan=Recipient
2	is	present	Telling		fine property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hurt not said to happen	present · passive		he		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	not laugh	to-infinitive	Telling not said here		at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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