Test 9 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

can i have my crisps in bed tonight

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: have · To what, where: crisps, bed

This is test 9 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	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 crisps	nmod:poss
5	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl
8	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	can	i	my crisps		bed	tonight		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Patient

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

Yes, just shake the sheet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 shake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 shake	advmod
4	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheet	det
6	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	the sheet					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sheet=Patient

Option 2

Only if the light is off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 off	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 off	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 off	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 off	cop
6	off	off	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the light					off property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Better at the table, crumbs bring bugs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 bring	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 table	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 table	det
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Better	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Better	punct
6	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bring	nsubj
7	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	crumbs	bugs				well property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bug=Theme

Option 4

Yes, crumbs just disappear by the morning if you sleep on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 crumbs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disappear	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 disappear	advmod
5	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 morning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disappear	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 sleep	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 sleep	nsubj
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 disappear	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	present	crumbs				morning		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep a condition, not said to happen	present	you					on crumbs = crumb	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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