Test 8 · ★★ · Your uh-oh feeling

Why should you keep telling adults if the first one does not help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, first one · What happens: keep, tell, not help · To what, where: adults · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Your uh-oh feeling» 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	4 keep	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 telling	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 help	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 help	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 help	advmod
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 telling	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	keep	should	you		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	you not said here	adults	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	not help a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	the first one		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

Adults like to hear a story many times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hear	mark
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Adults						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	Adults not said here	a story			time		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You deserve to be helped and kept safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 deserve	nsubj
2	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 helped	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 helped	aux:pass
5	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 deserve	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 helped	conj
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	You		tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive · passive	You not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»
3	keep	participle	You not said here	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

There is a rule that you must tell three people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 tell	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rule	acl:relcl
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 people	nummod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a rule			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	must	you	a rule	three people				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient that=Topic

Option 4

The first adult is always the wrong one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 adult	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 adult	amod
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 one	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the first adult	the wrong one				always property	tree rules

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