Test 16 · ★ · Speaking up, saying no and growing up

they're all smoking behind the shed and want me to try

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, me · What happens: smoke, want, try · To what, where: shed, me

This is test 16 · ★ 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smoking	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smoking	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 smoking	advmod
4	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 shed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shed	det
7	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smoking	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 want	cc
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smoking	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 want	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 try	mark
12	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smoke	present · progressive	they		the shed	all property	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	they not said here	me			tree rules
3	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Pretend to smoke it a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 smoke	mark
3	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pretend	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smoke	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smoke	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	to-infinitive		it				a bit obl:unmarked	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source

Option 2

Take one home for later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 home	nummod
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 later	case
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	one home					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent home=Theme for late=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Say no and walk away

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 walk	cc
4	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod

#	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	walk away	infinitive	you not said here					away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Try one just to fit in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Try	obj
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 fit	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fit	mark
5	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Try	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 fit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	one					tree rules
2	fit in not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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