Test 18 · ★★ · Windows, balconies and furniture

Ruby's telling everyone a girl in Texas got crushed by a bookcase n was stuck under it for a week. what's probably exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bookcase n · What happens: tell, crush, be, exaggerate · To what, where: everyone, girl, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Windows, balconies and furniture» 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	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 telling	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ruby	case
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 telling	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crushed	nsubj:pass
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Texas	case
8	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 girl	nmod
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crushed	aux:pass
10	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 telling	ccomp
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 stuck	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 n	det
13	bookcase	bookcase	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 n	compound
14	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stuck	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stuck	cop
16	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crushed	advcl
17	under	under	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stuck	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 week	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 week	det
21	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stuck	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 crushed	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 exaggerated	aux
25	probably	probably	ADV	_	26 exaggerated	advmod
26	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 crushed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic
2	crush	past · passive		a girl in Texas					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	past	a bookcase n			it	week	stuck property	tree rules
4	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 · ✓ the right answer

A week; tall furniture can tip and must be fixed to the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tip	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 furniture	punct
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 furniture	amod
5	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 week	conj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tip	aux
7	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fixed	cc
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fixed	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 fixed	aux:pass
11	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tip	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 wall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wall	det
14	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip	can	a week and tall furniture						vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fix	must · passive	a week and tall furniture not said here					to the wall	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: to wall=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That a bookcase can tip over on a child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 bookcase	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bookcase	det
3	bookcase	bookcase	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tip	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tip	aux
5	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 tip	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 child	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip over	can	that bookcase					on a child; over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on child=Destination

Option 3

Nothing, because bookcases are far too heavy ever to tip over on a child

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heavy	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 heavy	mark
4	bookcases	bookcase	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heavy	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 heavy	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 heavy	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 heavy	advmod
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 heavy	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tip	mark
11	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heavy	advcl
12	over	over	ADV	_	11 tip	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 child	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bookcases				ever	far, heavy property	tree rules
2	tip over	to-infinitive	bookcases not said here					on a child; over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on child=Destination

Option 4

That she climbed it to reach a toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 climbed	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 climbed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reach	mark
6	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 climbed	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toy	det
8	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	That	it					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive	That not said here	a toy					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent toy=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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