Test 20 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

my big bro shut his door n yelled "i'm on the phone to my girlfriend, get out"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big bro, door n · What happens: shut, yell, be, get out · To what, where: phone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 20 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bro	nmod:poss
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bro	amod
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	nsubj
4	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 n	nmod:poss
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 n	compound
7	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yelled	nsubj
8	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 phone	punct
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 phone	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 phone	cop
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 phone	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 phone	det
14	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yelled	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 girlfriend	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 girlfriend	nmod:poss
17	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 phone	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
19	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	parataxis
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 get	advmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shut	past	my big bro			tree rules
2	yell speech: express	past	bro's door n			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	bro's door n = n	the phone	to my girlfriend	tree rules
4	get out in a quote	infinitive			out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «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

Listen in and tell mum everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Listen	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	conj
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen in	imperative	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	everything	mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient everything=Topic

Option 2

Shout his girlfriend's name out loud outside his door so that she hears you tease him

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 girlfriend	nmod:poss
3	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 girlfriend	case
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obj
6	out	out	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Shout	advmod
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 door	nmod:poss
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 hears	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hears	nsubj
14	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tease	nsubj
16	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hears	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tease	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here	his girlfriend's name	outside his door; loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	hear	present	she			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	tease	present	you	him = he		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	name		his girlfriend			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He wants privacy to talk to someone he likes; leave him be, do not listen in

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	privacy	privacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 talk	mark
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 someone	case
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 talk	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 likes	nsubj
9	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 someone	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 leave	punct
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 leave	obj
13	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 leave	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 listen	punct
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 listen	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 listen	advmod
17	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 leave	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 listen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	privacy		tree rules
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	privacy not said here		to someone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent
3	like	present	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	leave	infinitive		him = he		tree rules
5	be	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not listen in	infinitive · do-support				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Take his phone away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 phone	nmod:poss
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	imperative	you not said here	his phone				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme

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