Test 12 · ★★ · Video calls and visiting a friend's house

at my mates and i broke his mums vase, oh no

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: break · To what, where: mums vase

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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	at	at	ADP	_	3 mates	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mates	nmod:poss
3	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 broke	cc
5	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 broke	nsubj
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mates	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 vase	nmod:poss
8	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 vase	compound
9	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mates	punct
11	oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 mates	nmod
12	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 oh	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	i	his mums vase					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vase=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

Blame the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	the cat					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 2

Go home quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					home, quickly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the adult straight away and say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the adult			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Hide the pieces under the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pieces	det
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hide	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	the pieces		the bed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Patient under bed=Location

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