Test 10 · ★ · Birthday parties

its my mates party, can i blow the candles with her

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: i · What happens: blow · To what, where: mates party

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 130 «Birthday parties» 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	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 party	nmod:poss
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 party	nmod:poss
3	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 party	compound
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blow	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 party	punct
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 blow	aux
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 blow	nsubj
8	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 candles	det
10	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blow	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 blow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	can	i	its mates party				with her = she	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent party=Beneficiary candle=Product

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

Yes, if you sing loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 sing	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sing	nsubj
5	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	you					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the birthday child blows them out alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 blows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 child	compound
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blows	nsubj
6	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blows	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 blows	compound:prt
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 blows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow out	present	the birthday child	them = they				alone property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Yes, it's quicker with two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 quicker	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quicker	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quicker	cop
5	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 two	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 quicker	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					with two; quick property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, if she has a lot of candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 has	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 candles	case
9	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	she	a lot of candles					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

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