Test 11 · ★ · Babies, button batteries and magnets

baby wont stop crying, can i give him a lil shake

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: wont stop, baby · What happens: cry, give · To what, where: lil shake, him

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 113 «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	nsubj
2	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	amod
3	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 baby	conj
4	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 baby	punct
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shake	det
11	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shake	amod
12	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	wont stop not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	can	baby and wont stop	a lil shake	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shake=Theme

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, gently shaking calms babies down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 shaking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 shaking	advmod
4	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 calms	nsubj
5	calms	calm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 calms	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 calms	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund						gently property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	calm down	present		babies				down property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

Option 2

Yes, if you hold his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 hold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 hold	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hold	nsubj
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	you	his head					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, never shake a baby, get a grown-up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 shake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 shake	advmod
4	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shake	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 shake	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 up	det
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 up	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 up	punct
12	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not shake	imperative	you not said here	a baby	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
2	get	infinitive	you not said here	a grown up	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer up=Stimulus
3	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Only for a few seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 seconds	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 seconds	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seconds	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seconds	amod
5	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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