Test 19 · ★★ · Windows, balconies and furniture

Dan dropped a water balloon off the balcony onto some old man, everyone thinks it's hilarious n is sharing the vid. should u share it

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dan, everyone, balloon, u · What happens: drop, think, be, share · To what, where: water balloon, balcony, vid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ 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	Dan	Dan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 balloon	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 balloon	compound
5	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 balcony	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 balcony	det
8	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thinks	punct
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 thinks	nsubj
15	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 share	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sharing	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sharing	cop
18	hilarious	hilarious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 n	amod
19	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sharing	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sharing	aux
21	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 thinks	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 vid	det
23	vid	vid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sharing	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thinks	punct
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 share	aux
26	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 share	nsubj
27	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dropped	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	past	Dan	a water balloon	the balcony	onto some old man	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent balloon=Theme off balcony=Destination onto man=Initial_Location
2	think speech: other	present	everyone				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is	present · progressive	balloon			share property	tree rules
4	share	should	u	vid			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

Yes, but crop the old man out of the video first so nobody knows who he is

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 crop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crop	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 crop	cc
4	crop	crop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crop	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 video	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 video	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 video	det
11	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crop	obl
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 crop	advmod
13	so	so	SCONJ	_	15 knows	mark
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 knows	nsubj
15	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crop	advcl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	15 knows	ccomp
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 who	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crop	imperative	you not said here	the old man	the video	first property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	know	present	nobody				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	man				tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because water balloons can never hurt anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 hurt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 hurt	mark
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 balloons	compound
5	balloons	balloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurt	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	can	water balloons	anyone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

Option 3

Yes, so everyone sees how funny Dan is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sees	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 sees	advmod
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 sees	nsubj
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 funny	advmod
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Dan	amod
8	Dan	Dan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sees	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sees	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	everyone					see property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, dropping things can hurt people below, so do not share it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 hurt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dropping	punct
3	dropping	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hurt	csubj
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dropping	obj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurt	obj
8	below	below	ADV	_	6 hurt	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 share	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 share	advmod
11	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 share	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 share	advmod
13	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hurt	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund		things		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	hurt	can	dropping	people	below property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient
3	not share	infinitive · do-support	dropping not said here	it		tree rules

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