Test 8 · Remembering details

Why does saying «green hoodie, white shoes» to yourself help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: say, help · To what, where: green hoodie, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saying	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 hoodie	punct
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hoodie	amod
6	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shoes	punct
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shoes	amod
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hoodie	conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 hoodie	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 yourself	case
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 saying	obl
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 yourself	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support		green hoodie and white shoes	yourself				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hoodie=Topic to yourself=Recipient
2	help	infinitive							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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

Saying it out loud makes the person stop and wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 makes	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Saying	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Saying	compound:prt
4	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Saying	advmod
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wait	cc
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say out speech: assert	gerund		it	loud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	make	present	Saying	the person		tree rules
3	stop	infinitive	the person not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	wait	infinitive	the person not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It changes what the person wears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wears	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wears	nsubj
6	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 changes	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	It						tree rules
2	wear	present	the person						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Words make the picture easier to remember

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 picture	det
4	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 remember	mark
7	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Words	the picture				easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product
2	remember	to-infinitive	the picture not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It warns everybody nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warns	nsubj
2	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 warns	obj
4	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	2 warns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	It		everybody			nearby property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everybody=Recipient

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