Test 6 · ★★ · Home alone, keys and garden play

Which garden activity is safest for two children who share a trampoline?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garden activity, two children · What happens: be, share · To what, where: trampoline

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 garden	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 activity	compound
3	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 safest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safest	cop
5	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 children	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 children	nummod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 safest	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 share	nsubj
10	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 children	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trampoline	det
12	trampoline	trampoline	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 share	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 safest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	garden activity					for two children; safe property	tree rules
2	share	present	two children	a trampoline					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 · ← Mova's choice

Doing flips over the net

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 flips	nsubj
2	flips	flip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 net	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 net	det
5	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flips	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flip	present				the net			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over net=Destination

Option 2

Jumping off onto the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Jumping	compound:prt
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	5 grass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jumping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	gerund				the grass			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto grass=Trajectory

Option 3

Bouncing together to go higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bouncing	bounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	together	together	ADV	_	1 Bouncing	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bouncing	advcl
5	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	gerund						together property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive						high property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Taking turns, one person at a time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 person	nummod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		turns			time	one person obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme

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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