Test 20 · ★★ · Anger and fears

my mate said the vaccine needle goes right into ur bone and some kid fainted for an hour. should i be scared?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, vaccine needle, kid, i · What happens: say, go, faint, be · To what, where: bone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 20 · ★★ of lesson 212 «Anger and fears» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 needle	det
5	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needle	compound
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	nsubj
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	right	right	ADV	_	11 bone	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 bone	case
10	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bone	nmod:poss
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fainted	cc
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 kid	det
14	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fainted	nsubj
15	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bone	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 hour	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hour	det
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fainted	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 goes	punct
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 scared	aux
21	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 scared	nsubj
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 scared	cop
23	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goes	advcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present	the vaccine needle	ur's bone			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bone=Initial_Location
3	faint	past	some kid		hour		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	should	i			scared property	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

Yes, so refuse to have it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 refuse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 refuse	advmod
4	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refuse	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	imperative	you not said here						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not have	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 lasts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sting	det
4	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lasts	nsubj
5	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 second	det
7	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lasts	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 protects	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vaccine	det
10	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 protects	nsubj
11	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lasts	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 protects	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	the sting				second		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	protect	present	the vaccine		you				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, every kid faints after it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 faints	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kid	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faints	nsubj
5	faints	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faints	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	present	every kid				after it		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, it's very painful and dangerous, it goes right into the bone

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 painful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 painful	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 painful	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 painful	advmod
6	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dangerous	cc
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 painful	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 goes	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 goes	nsubj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 painful	conj
12	right	right	ADV	_	11 goes	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 bone	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bone	det
15	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		painful property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	go	present	it	the bone	right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bone=Initial_Location

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