Test 19 · ★ · Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds

my mate said a kid in the park picked up a needle and now has some disease forever. should u spread it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, kid, u · What happens: say, pick up, have, spread · To what, where: needle, disease · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 228 «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 picked	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 park	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 park	det
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kid	nmod
9	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 picked	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 needle	det
12	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 picked	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 has	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 has	advmod
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 picked	conj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 disease	det
17	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
18	forever	forever	ADV	_	15 has	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 spread	punct
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 spread	aux
21	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 spread	nsubj
22	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spread	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pick up	past	a kid in the park	a needle			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Topic
3	have	present	a kid in the park not said here	some disease	now	forever property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Patient
4	spread	should	u	disease			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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

Yes, and add more details

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 add	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 add	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 add	cc
4	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 details	amod
6	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	more details					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and say which kid it was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kid	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	which kid					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kid=Topic

Option 3

Yes, scare everyone with the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 scare	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 scare	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	imperative	you not said here	everyone				with the story	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Just learn the lesson: never touch needles, tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 learn	advmod
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learn	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 touch	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 touch	advmod
7	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 learn	parataxis
8	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 touch	conj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here	the lesson		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
2	not touch	infinitive		needles		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme needle=Co-Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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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