Test 18 · ★★ · Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?

apparently some boys prank-called 999 like 50 times and the police came to their house and arrested their mum. what's likely blown up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boys · What happens: call, come, arrest, blow up · To what, where: boys, house, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	nsubj
4	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 prank	punct
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 boys	acl
7	999	999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 50	case
9	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 999	nmod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 police	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 police	det
13	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 times	conj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 blown	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 house	nmod:poss
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 arrested	cc
19	arrested	arrest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mum	nmod:poss
21	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arrested	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 blown	nsubj:pass
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 blown	aux
25	likely	likely	ADV	_	26 blown	advmod
26	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 blown	compound:prt
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 blown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		some boys not said here		time		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	some boys		boys's house		apparently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
3	arrest	past	some boys not said here	boys's mum				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient
4	blow up	present · passive					likely property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=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

That emergency calls tie up real help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 emergency	det
2	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	compound
3	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tie	nsubj
4	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 tie	compound:prt
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 help	amod
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tie	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	present	emergency calls	real help					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient

Option 2

That police take such calls seriously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 police	det
2	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 calls	amod
5	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
6	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	3 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	that police	such calls				seriously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The mum's arrest; but prank emergency calls are illegal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrest	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mum	case
4	arrest	arrest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 illegal	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 illegal	cc
7	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 emergency	compound
8	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 calls	compound
9	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 illegal	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 illegal	cop
11	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 arrest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	emergency calls					illegal property	tree rules
2	arrest		the mum						nom arrest «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

That the boys got into trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 got	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 trouble	case
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	That			trouble			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination

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