Test 16 · ★ · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table

dad's choking at dinner and can't talk

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: not talk, choke · To what, where: dinner

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 221 «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» 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	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choking	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 dad	case
3	choking	choking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choking	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 talk	cc
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 talk	advmod
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 choking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	can							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	choke		dad			dinner			nom choking «state transitive»: poss=agent at=place

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

Wait, it'll pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pass	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pass	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pass	aux
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	future	it						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Give him water

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	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	water	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Shout for help and call the emergency number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 help	case
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 call	cc
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
7	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 number	compound
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here					for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient
2	call	infinitive	you not said here	the emergency number					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient

Option 4

Make him lie down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 lie	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	lie down	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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