Test 10 · ★ · Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark

kid pushed in front of me in the lunch line

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: push · To what, where: kid, front

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 100 «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 kid	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushed	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 front	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 line	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 line	det
9	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 line	compound
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	participle		kid not said here		front of me		in the lunch line	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in front=Trajectory

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

Shove in front of someone else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shove	shove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 front	case
3	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shove	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 someone	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 front	nmod
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 someone	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Throw your tray at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tray	nmod:poss
3	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	your tray				at him = he	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tray=Theme at he=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Push him back out of the line so he learns his lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Push	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Push	advmod
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 line	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 line	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Push	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 learns	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learns	nsubj
10	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Push	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lesson	nmod:poss
12	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 learns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push back	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the line			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out line=Trajectory
2	learn	present	he	his lesson					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Politely say you were there first or tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Politely	politely	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 there	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 say	ccomp
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 say	advmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		first, politely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	you		there property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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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