Test 14 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

baby bro climbing the telly stand

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby bro · What happens: climb · To what, where: telly stand

This is test 14 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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	2 bro	compound
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bro	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stand	det
5	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	compound
6	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund	baby bro not said here	the telly stand					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stand=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

Hold the TV steady with both hands while he climbs up to the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 TV	det
3	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj
4	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hold	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hands	det
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hold	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 climbs	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 climbs	nsubj
10	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 climbs	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climbs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	the TV				with both hands; steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme
2	climb up	present	he			the top			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Get him down and tell an adult, the TV can fall on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Get	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Get	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fall	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 TV	det
10	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fall	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fall	aux
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Get	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get down	imperative	you not said here	him = he			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	fall	can	the TV			on adult	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location

Option 3

Put him on top of the TV

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 top	case
4	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 TV	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 TV	det
7	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	him = he		top of the TV			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on top=Destination

Option 4

Let him, he's having fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 having	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 having	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 having	aux
6	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Let	advcl
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	have	present · progressive	he	fun					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient

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