Test 12 · ★ · Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals

lil sis thinks the vitamins are sweets lol, play along?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lil sis, vitamins · What happens: think, be, play along · To what, where: sweets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 114 «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» 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	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sis	amod
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vitamins	det
5	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sweets	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sweets	cop
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thinks	ccomp
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 thinks	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 play	punct
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thinks	ccomp
11	along	along	ADV	_	10 play	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	lil sis			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a	present	the vitamins	sweets		tree rules
3	play along	infinitive			along property	vn performance-26.7-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only call them candy at bedtime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 call	advmod
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 call	obj
4	candy	candy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 call	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 bedtime	case
6	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 candy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	candy	infinitive	you not said here			bedtime			tree rules

Option 2

Yes, it's cute and totally harmless anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cute	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cute	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cute	cop
5	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 harmless	cc
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 harmless	advmod
8	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cute	conj
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 cute	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					anyway, cute property	tree rules
2	be							totally property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it helps her take them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 helps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helps	nsubj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helps	obj
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helps	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	it	her = she					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	take	infinitive	her = she not said here	them = they					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, call them medicine so she doesn't go looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 call	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 call	obj
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 call	advcl
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	them = they	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme medicine=Result
2	not go	present · do-support	she		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look	gerund	she not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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