Test 15 · ★ · Birthday parties

friend with nut allergy at my party, cake has nuts

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend cake · What happens: have · To what, where: nuts

This is test 15 · ★ 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	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cake	compound
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 allergy	case
3	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allergy	compound
4	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 friend	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 party	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 party	nmod:poss
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allergy	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 friend	punct
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	friend cake	nuts					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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

Don't tell him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult so there's safe food for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 's	advmod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 's	nsubj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 's	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	present	safe food			there		for adult	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A little bit won't hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	amod
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	obl
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hurt	advmod
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	future		a little bit					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He can just pick the nuts out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pick	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pick	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 pick	advmod
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nuts	det
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pick	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 pick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick out	can	He	the nuts					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient

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