Test 14 · ★ · Gratitude, helping at home and privacy

cba to tidy, leaving my toys on the stairs

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tidy, leave · To what, where: toys, stairs

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 102 «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» 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	cba	cba	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 tidy	mark
3	tidy	tidy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cba	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 leaving	punct
5	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tidy	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 toys	nmod:poss
7	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leaving	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stairs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stairs	det
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tidy	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	leave	gerund		my toys		the stairs			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toy=Theme on stair=Location

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

Put them on every other step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 step	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 step	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 step	amod
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	them = they				on every other step	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on step=Destination

Option 2

Only big toys are a problem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 toys	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 toys	amod
3	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 problem	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 problem	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 problem	det
6	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	big toys	a problem					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Leave them, people always look where they're walking on stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 look	advmod
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 walking	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walking	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 walking	aux
10	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 look	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 stairs	case
12	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	them = they			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	look	present	people			always property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	walk	present · progressive	people		stairs		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stair=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tidy them, someone could trip and fall down the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tidy	tidy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tidy	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trip	punct
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 trip	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 trip	aux
6	trip	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tidy	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fall	cc
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trip	conj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 fall	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stairs	det
11	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tidy	imperative	you not said here	them = they	tree rules
2	trip	could	someone		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall down	infinitive	someone not said here	the stairs	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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