Test 19 · ★ · Smells that warn

someone's spreading that Ella's lunch box stinks cos her family's dirty, it's going round

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lunch box, spreading, someone · What happens: stink, go round, spread · To what, where: spreading

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells that warn» 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 spreading	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 someone	case
3	spreading	spreading	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 going	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stinks	obj
5	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 box	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Ella	case
7	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 box	compound
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stinks	nsubj
9	stinks	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spreading	acl:relcl
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 dirty	mark
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 family	nmod:poss
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dirty	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 family	case
14	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stinks	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spreading	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	round	round	ADV	_	18 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stink	present	Ella's lunch box	someone's spreading		tree rules
2	go round	present · progressive	someone's spreading		round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spread		someone			nom spreading «event transitive»: poss=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

Do not pass it on; it is cruel and probably untrue, and it hurts her

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pass	advmod
3	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pass	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 pass	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 cruel	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cruel	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cruel	cop
9	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pass	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 untrue	cc
11	probably	probably	ADV	_	12 untrue	advmod
12	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cruel	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hurts	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hurts	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hurts	nsubj
16	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not pass on	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	it		cruel property	tree rules
3	be				probably property	tree rules
4	hurt	present	it	her = she		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient

Option 2

Pass it on, so she brings different food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brings	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 brings	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brings	nsubj
7	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	bring	present	she	different food					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 3

Pass it on, because a smell is a fact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fact	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 fact	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 smell	det
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fact	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fact	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fact	det
10	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	a smell	a fact					tree rules

Option 4

Pass it on, but only to her friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 friends	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 friends	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 friends	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 friends	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friends	nmod:poss
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it	her friends				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to friend=Destination

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