Test 8 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

Why is it wrong to take your brother's bike without asking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, take, ask · To what, where: bike

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wrong	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wrong	csubj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bike	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 brother	case
10	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 asking	mark
12	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 take	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		wrong property	tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive		your brother's bike		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 · ✓ the right answer

It belongs to him, and asking shows respect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 belongs	nsubj
2	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 belongs	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shows	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shows	cc
7	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 shows	nsubj
8	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 belongs	conj
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	belong	present	It		him = he	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show	present		respect		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient

Option 2

He might want to sell it

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	3 want	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 want	aux
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sell	mark
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	might	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

It is only wrong if you scratch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 wrong	advmod
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 scratch	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 scratch	nsubj
7	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scratch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					wrong property	tree rules
2	scratch a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Bikes break if a second person rides them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 break	nsubj
2	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 rides	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rides	nsubj
7	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 break	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rides	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	Bikes						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	ride a condition, not said to happen	present	a second person	Bikes = bike					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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