Test 11 · ★ · Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark

he keeps nicking my pencils every day

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: keep, nick · To what, where: pencils

This is test 11 · ★ 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nicking	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pencils	nmod:poss
5	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nicking	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	he						tree rules
2	nick	gerund	he not said here	my pencils			day		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=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.

The options

Option 1

Say nothing and buy more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 buy	cc
4	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	buy	infinitive	you not said here	more					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme

Option 2

Take his pencils back twice so it's fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 pencils	nmod:poss
3	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Take	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 fair	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fair	expl
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fair	cop
9	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Take	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	imperative	you not said here	his pencils				twice property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme
2	is	present	you not said here					fair property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Say clearly "Stop, that's mine" and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Stop	punct
4	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mine	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 mine	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mine	cop
8	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Stop	parataxis
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Stop	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adult	det
13	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		clearly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop in a quote	infinitive				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a in a quote	present	that	mine		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	a adult			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Hide all your things forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 things	det:predet
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 things	nmod:poss
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hide	obj
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	your things				forever property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

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