Test 16 · ★ · Responsibility, independence and curiosity

u hear about the kid in Texas, big brother was on his phone n the little one fell in the pool, mum pulled him out, they reckon he was under for like an hour. what's probably exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, big brother, little one, mum, kid, Texas · What happens: hear, be, fall, pull out, reckon, exaggerate · To what, where: phone, pool, Texas

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 101 «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» 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	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 kid	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Texas	case
7	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kid	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 phone	punct
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brother	amod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 phone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 phone	cop
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 phone	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 phone	nmod:poss
14	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kid	conj
15	n	n	SCONJ	_	19 fell	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 phone	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 pool	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pool	det
22	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pulled	punct
24	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pulled	nsubj
25	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pulled	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	25 pulled	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 reckon	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 reckon	nsubj
30	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	conj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hour	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hour	cop
33	under	under	ADP	_	37 hour	case
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 hour	case
35	like	like	ADP	_	37 hour	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 hour	det
37	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reckon	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
40	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 exaggerated	aux
41	probably	probably	ADV	_	42 exaggerated	advmod
42	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hear	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	u				about the kid in Texas and Texas's phone	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about kid=Stimulus
2	is	past	big brother		Texas's phone			tree rules
3	fall	past	the little one		the pool			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pool=Location
4	pull out	past	mum	Texas				tree rules
5	reckon	present	kid					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Texas			under a hour		tree rules
7	exaggerate	present · passive					probably property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

That the mum pulled the little one out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 mum	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mum	det
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obj
8	out	out	ADV	_	4 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	that mum	the little one				out property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 2

That a little child fell into a pool at all, because that never happens in real life

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fell	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 pool	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pool	det
8	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 pool	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happens	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 happens	mark
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 happens	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 happens	advmod
15	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 life	case
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 life	amod
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	That					into a pool at all result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pool=Result
2	not happen	present	that			real life			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location

Option 3

That the brother was looking at his phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 brother	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looking	aux
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 phone	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 phone	nmod:poss
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	that brother					at brother's phone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

An hour; a child under that long would not survive, it was seconds

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 survive	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hour	conj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 long	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 long	nsubj
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	nmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 survive	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 survive	advmod
11	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seconds	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seconds	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seconds	cop
15	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 survive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not survive	would	a hour and a child under long						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	child	seconds					tree rules

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