Test 13 · ★ · Birthday parties

party's over, balloon bits on the floor and lil kids around

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: party · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ 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	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 over	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 over	cop
3	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bits	punct
5	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bits	compound
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 over	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bits	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kids	cc
11	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kids	amod
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 floor	conj
13	around	around	ADV	_	3 over	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	party					balloon bits on the floor and lil kids obl; around, over property	tree rules

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

Give them to the toddlers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 toddlers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toddlers	det
5	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here		them = they			to the toddlers	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to toddler=Recipient

Option 2

Blow them up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Blow	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Blow	compound:prt
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Blow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow up	imperative	you not said here	them = they			again		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pick them up and bin them, kids can choke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bin	cc
5	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bin	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 choke	punct
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 choke	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 choke	aux
10	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	them = they	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	bin	infinitive	you not said here	them = they	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	choke	can	kids		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Leave them, they're just bits of rubber and can't hurt anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bits	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bits	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bits	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 bits	advmod
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leave	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 rubber	case
9	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bits	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hurt	cc
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hurt	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hurt	advmod
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	them = they		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is a	present	they	bits	of rubber	tree rules
3	not hurt	can	you not said here	anyone		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

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