Test 14 · ★ · Chores and broken things

smashed a glass, gonna pick up the bits quick

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: smash, pick up · To what, where: glass, bits

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 111 «Chores and broken things» 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	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 glass	det
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smashed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pick	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 pick	dep
6	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 smashed	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pick	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bits	det
9	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pick	obj
10	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past		a glass					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
2	pick up	infinitive		the bits					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic

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

Kick them under the sofa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kick	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 sofa	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sofa	det
5	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the sofa			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient under sofa=Location

Option 2

Walk on them to crush them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Walk	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 crush	mark
5	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Walk	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					on them = they	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory
2	crush	to-infinitive	you not said here	them = they					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Pick them up barehanded fast before mum sees the mess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	barehanded	barehand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Pick	xcomp
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Pick	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 sees	mark
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sees	nsubj
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mess	det
10	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	them = they	fast property	tree rules
2	barehand	participle	you not said here			tree rules
3	see	present	mum	the mess		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mess=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stay back, put shoes on and get an adult to clean it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 get	cc
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 clean	mark
12	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 get	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stay back	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put on	infinitive	you not said here	shoes	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoe=Goal
3	get	infinitive	you not said here	a adult	tree rules
4	clean	to-infinitive	a adult not said here	adult	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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