Test 17 · ★★ · Building and making things safely

apparently some boys built a treehouse with no adult and the floor broke and one broke his leg. what's the true lesson?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boys, treehouse, one · What happens: build, break, be · To what, where: leg, true lesson

This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 244 «Building and making things safely» 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 built	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	nsubj
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 treehouse	det
6	treehouse	treehouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broke	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 adult	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 adult	det
9	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 treehouse	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 floor	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 adult	conj
13	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 built	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 broke	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 broke	nsubj
16	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 broke	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 leg	nmod:poss
18	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 broke	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 lesson	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lesson	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lesson	det
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lesson	amod
24	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	parataxis
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	past	some boys		apparently property	tree rules
2	break	past	a treehouse with no adult and the floor			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	break	past	one	treehouse's leg		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient
4	is a	present		the true lesson		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

Use more nails and it'll be fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 nails	amod
3	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fine	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fine	expl
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Use	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	more nails					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient
2	is	future	you not said here					fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Treehouses never break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Treehouses	treehous	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 break	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 break	advmod
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not break	present	Treehouses						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Build with an adult who checks the wood and height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 adult	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Build	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 checks	nsubj
6	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 adult	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 checks	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 height	cc
10	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	imperative	you not said here					with a adult	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with adult=Source
2	check	present	a adult	the wood and height					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

Option 4

Build it higher up in the tree so it's safer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Build	obj
3	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Build	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	1 Build	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Build	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 safer	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 safer	expl
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 safer	cop
11	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Build	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build up	imperative	you not said here	it		the tree			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer it=Patient
2	is	present						safe property	tree rules

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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