Test 16 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

did u hear that kid with the hearing aid, someone pulled it out as a joke and it broke and cost like a million quid. real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, someone, kid · What happens: hear, pull out, break, cost · To what, where: kid

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 aid	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 aid	det
8	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 aid	compound
9	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kid	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pulled	punct
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 pulled	nsubj
12	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 aid	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pulled	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 pulled	compound:prt
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 joke	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 joke	det
17	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulled	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 broke	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 broke	nsubj
20	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pulled	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cost	cc
22	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 broke	conj
23	like	like	ADP	_	26 quid	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 million	det
25	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 quid	nummod
26	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cost	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
28	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lesson	amod
29	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	that kid	with the hearing aid; real lesson obl:unmarked	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus
2	pull out	past	someone	kid	as a joke	tree rules
3	break	past	kid			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	cost	infinitive	kid not said here		like million quid	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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

Only grown-ups' hearing aids matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 grown	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 aids	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 ups	case
6	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 aids	compound
7	aids	aid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 matter	nsubj
8	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	matter	present	grown ups's hearing aids						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Never touch someone's hearing aid; respect it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 touch	advmod
2	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 aid	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 someone	case
5	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 aid	compound
6	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touch	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 respect	punct
8	respect	respect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 touch	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 respect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	imperative	you not said here	someone's hearing aid					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme aid=Co-Theme
2	respect	infinitive	you not said here	aid					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Hearing aids are basically toys, so it's okay to try one on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 aids	compound
2	aids	aid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 toys	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 toys	cop
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	5 toys	advmod
5	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 okay	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 okay	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 okay	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 okay	cop
10	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toys	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 try	mark
12	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 okay	csubj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 try	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	12 try	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Hearing aids	toys	basically property	tree rules
2	is	present	it		okay property	tree rules
3	try on	to-infinitive		one		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 4

It's fine if you put it back quickly

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 put	advmod
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	put back a condition, not said to happen	past	you	it				quickly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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