Test 16 · ★★ · Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?

dared to push my sister in the pool with her clothes on, she can't swim well

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: dare, push, not swim · To what, where: sister, pool

This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 204 «Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?» 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	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 swim	advcl
2	to	to	PART	_	3 push	mark
3	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 dared	xcomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sister	nmod:poss
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 push	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pool	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pool	det
8	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 push	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 clothes	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 clothes	nmod:poss
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 pool	nmod
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 clothes	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 dared	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 swim	nsubj
15	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 swim	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 swim	advmod
17	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dare	past	she not said here				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	push	to-infinitive	she not said here	my sister	the pool with her clothes		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sister=Theme in pool=Trajectory
3	not swim	can	she			well property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, she could drown, never push anyone in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 drown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drown	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drown	aux
5	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 push	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 push	advmod
8	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 drown	conj
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 push	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	8 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	could	she						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not push	infinitive	she not said here	anyone					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme

Option 2

Yes, if you jump in after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 jump	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 jump	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 jump	nsubj
5	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 after	advcl
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 jump	advmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump in	present	you						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only in the shallow end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 end	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
4	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 end	amod
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, it's just a laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 laugh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laugh	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 laugh	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 laugh	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 laugh	det
7	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a laugh					tree rules

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