Test 17 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners

some kid found a wallet at school n kept it n the police came to his house, the boys say he went to jail. what's probably exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, wallet, police, boys, he · What happens: find, keep, come, say, go, exaggerate · To what, where: kid, house, jail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» 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	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wallet	det
5	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 n	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 n	compound
8	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wallet	nmod
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	obj
11	n	n	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 police	det
13	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 house	nmod:poss
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boys	det
20	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 say	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 jail	case
25	jail	jail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 exaggerated	aux
29	probably	probably	ADV	_	30 exaggerated	advmod
30	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 found	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	some kid				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	keep	past	a wallet at school n	kid			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	come	past	the police		his house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	present	the boys				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	past	he		jail		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jail=Initial_Location
6	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 · ✓ the right answer

Going to jail; the lesson is to hand found things to the office

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 hand	advcl
2	to	to	PART	_	3 jail	mark
3	jail	jail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Going	xcomp
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Going	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lesson	det
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl:unmarked
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hand	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hand	mark
9	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hand	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 office	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 office	det
14	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	the lesson		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	jail	to-infinitive			vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		to the office; hand property	tree rules
4	find	participle			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2

That keeping found money is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 money	det
2	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 money	csubj
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 keeping	xcomp
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrong	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund			tree rules
2	find	participle			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	that money	wrong property	tree rules

Option 3

That he found a wallet at school at all, because nobody ever drops one

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 found	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wallet	det
5	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wallet	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 wallet	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drops	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 drops	mark
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 drops	nsubj
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 drops	advmod
14	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 drops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	That	a wallet		school		at all	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent wallet=Theme at school=Asset
2	drop	present	nobody	one			ever		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 4

That the owner was looking for the wallet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 owner	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owner	det
3	owner	owner	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	for	for	ADP	_	8 wallet	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wallet	det
8	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	that owner					for the wallet	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wallet=Theme

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