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Test 6 · ★ · Sharp things, small objects and little ones

A boy in Ottawa hears his baby cousin go silent with a toy in her mouth, unable to breathe. What comes first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, baby cousin · What happens: hear, go, breathe, come · To what, where: mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 112 «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Ottawa hears his baby cousin go silent with a toy in her mouth, unable to breathe.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hears	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ottawa	case
4	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cousin	nmod:poss
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cousin	compound
8	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hears	ccomp
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 toy	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 toy	det
13	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mouth	nmod:poss
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 unable	punct
18	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mouth	amod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 breathe	mark
20	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 unable	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	a boy in Ottawa						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	present	boy's baby cousin			cousin's mouth		with a toy; silent property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with toy=Beneficiary
3	breathe	to-infinitive	boy's baby cousin not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What comes first?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 comes	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present						first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ask her to spit it out later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 spit	mark
4	spit	spit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spit	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 spit	compound:prt
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 spit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	spit out not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				late property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Give her a biscuit to swallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 biscuit	det
4	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 swallow	mark
6	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a biscuit	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient biscuit=Theme
2	swallow	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Look for the box the toy came in to read it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 box	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toy	det
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 box	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 read	mark
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Look	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					for the box	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for box=Theme
2	come in	past	the toy	the box not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme
3	read	to-infinitive	you not said here	toy					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Shout for a grown-up and call 911

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 grown	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grown	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Shout	ccomp
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 call	cc
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	conj
9	911	911	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	infinitive	you not said here	911					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 911=Recipient

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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