Test 12 · ★ · Rumours and gossip

theres a scary character challenge goin round, kids r freaked

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: freak · To what, where: theres

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 202 «Rumours and gossip» 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	theres	there	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 freaked	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goin	det
3	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 goin	amod
4	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 challenge	compound
5	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goin	compound
6	goin	goin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 theres	nmod
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 goin	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kids	punct
9	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 theres	conj
10	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 freaked	aux:pass
11	freaked	freak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freak	present · passive		theres a scary challenge goin and kids					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

It's real, hide

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	3 real	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hide	punct
5	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 real	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					real property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's usually a hoax; an adult can check if there's real danger

The tree, 14 words

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	5 hoax	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hoax	cop
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 hoax	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hoax	det
5	hoax	hoax	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 check	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 check	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 check	aux
10	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hoax	parataxis
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 's	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 's	expl
13	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 check	ccomp
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 danger	amod
15	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 's	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a hoax		usually property	tree rules
2	check	can	a adult				tree rules
3	be a condition, not said to happen	present	real danger		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Do the challenge to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 challenge	det
3	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 challenge	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	the challenge					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Eventuality
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here	the challenge not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Share it so others know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Share	obj
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 know	mark
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Share	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	know	present	others						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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