Test 14 · ★ · Speaking up, saying no and growing up

older kids want me in their car, driver's only 17 and goes mad fast

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: older kids, driver · What happens: want, be, go · To what, where: me, car, 17

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 kids	amod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 car	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 car	nmod:poss
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 17	punct
9	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 17	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 17	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 17	advmod
12	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 want	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 goes	cc
14	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 want	conj
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 goes	xcomp
16	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 mad	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	older kids	me	kids's car		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
2	is a	present	driver	17			tree rules
3	go	present	older kids not said here			mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

Go but sit in the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 sit	cc
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	infinitive	you not said here			the back			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in back=Location

Option 2

Go if it's a short trip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 trip	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trip	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trip	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trip	det
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trip	amod
7	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	it	a short trip					tree rules

Option 3

Go so they think you're cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 cool	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cool	cop
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	they		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you	cool property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say no and call your parent for a lift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 call	cc
4	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parent	nmod:poss
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 lift	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lift	det
9	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	call	infinitive	you not said here	your parent				for a lift	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent parent=Theme for lift=Beneficiary

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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