Test 15 · ★ · Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark

watched a horror film at a sleepover, now can't sleep

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: watch, not sleep · To what, where: horror film, sleepover

This is test 15 · ★ 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	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 film	det
3	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 film	compound
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 watched	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 sleepover	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sleepover	det
7	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 watched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sleep	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sleep	advmod
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sleep	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 sleep	advmod
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 watched	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past		a horror film		a sleepover			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme
2	not sleep	can					now		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a parent, and next time pick a film for your age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parent	det
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pick	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pick	cc
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obl:unmarked
8	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 film	det
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 age	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 age	nmod:poss
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a parent				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
2	pick	infinitive		a film			for your age; time		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent film=Theme for age=Beneficiary

Option 2

Stay up all night instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Stay	compound:prt
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl:unmarked
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	imperative	you not said here				night	instead property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Watch another one straight away to get used to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Watch	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Watch	advcl
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 get	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	another one		away property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	use	participle	you not said here		it		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Never sleep with the lights off again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 sleep	advmod
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 lights	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lights	det
5	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleep	obl
6	off	off	ADP	_	2 sleep	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	2 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep off	imperative	you not said here				again	with the lights	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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