Test 14 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

baby's playing with a tiny battery from the remote

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby · What happens: play · To what, where: remote

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 baby	case
3	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 baby	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 battery	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 battery	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 battery	amod
7	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playing	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 remote	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 remote	det
10	remote	remote	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	baby not said here			the remote		with a tiny battery	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with battery=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

Let him, it's not charged so it can't do anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 charged	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 charged	nsubj:pass
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 charged	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 charged	advmod
7	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Let	parataxis
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he	tree rules
2	not charge	present · passive		it	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not do	can	it	anything	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

Option 2

Wait and see if he swallows it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 see	cc
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 swallows	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swallows	nsubj
6	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swallows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	swallow a condition, not said to happen	present	he	it	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

Take it away and tell an adult right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 now	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	imperative	you not said here	it				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4

Give him a toy instead and leave it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toy	det
4	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 leave	cc
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a toy	him = he			instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient toy=Theme
2	leave	infinitive	you not said here	toy					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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