Test 17 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

did u hear a kid pushed in the lunch queue and a girl got shoved into the hot soup and burnt her arm? real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u · What happens: hear, push, shove, burnt · To what, where: kid, lunch queue, girl, hot soup, arm

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kid	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 queue	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 queue	det
9	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 queue	compound
10	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shoved	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shoved	nsubj:pass
14	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shoved	aux:pass
15	shoved	shove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hear	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 soup	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 soup	det
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 soup	amod
19	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shoved	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 burnt	cc
21	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shoved	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arm	nmod:poss
23	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 burnt	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 lesson	punct
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lesson	amod
26	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 burnt	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	a kid			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus
2	push	participle		a kid not said here	the lunch queue		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in queue=Trajectory
3	shove	past · passive		a girl	the hot soup		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into soup=Destination
4	burnt	past		girl's arm		real lesson obl	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

Lunch queues are always safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 queues	compound
2	queues	queue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 safe	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 safe	advmod
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lunch queues					always, safe property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't push in queues; pushing near hot food causes burns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 push	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 push	advmod
3	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 causes	advcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 queues	case
5	queues	queue	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 push	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 push	punct
7	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 causes	csubj
8	near	near	ADV	_	7 pushing	advmod
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushing	obj
11	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not push	infinitive · do-support	pushing not said here		queues		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in queue=Trajectory
2	push	gerund		hot food		near property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	cause	present	pushing	burns			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition burn=Patient

Option 3

Only push when the queue is slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 push	advmod
2	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 slow	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queue	det
5	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slow	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slow	cop
7	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 push	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the queue					slow property	tree rules

Option 4

It's the soup's fault for being hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fault	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soup	det
4	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fault	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 soup	case
6	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 hot	case
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 hot	cop
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fault	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the soup's fault					tree rules
2	is	gerund						hot property	tree rules

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