Test 13 · ★ · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly

he took my piece, gonna chuck the board at him

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: take, chuck · To what, where: piece, board

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 242 «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 piece	nmod:poss
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chuck	punct
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 chuck	dep
7	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 board	det
9	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	my piece					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	chuck	infinitive	he not said here	the board				at him = he	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent board=Theme at he=Destination

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

Throw it at the wall instead so you don't hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 wall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Throw	advmod
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 hit	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 hit	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hit	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hit	advmod
11	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Throw	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	it		the wall		instead property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at wall=Destination
2	not hit	present · do-support	you	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, stop, cool down and talk it out or get an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cool	punct
5	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 cool	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 talk	cc
8	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talk	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 talk	compound:prt
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	conj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 adult	det
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	cool down	infinitive	you not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	talk out	infinitive	you not said here	it	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	get	infinitive	you not said here	a adult	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, he started it, so it's fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 started	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 started	nsubj
4	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 started	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fair	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 fair	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fair	expl
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fair	cop
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 started	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	he	it					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is	present	he not said here					fair property	tree rules

Option 4

Only throw the dice at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 throw	advmod
2	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dice	det
4	dice	die	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 throw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	the dice				at him = he	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent die=Theme at he=Destination

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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