Test 9 · ★★ · Building and making things safely

building the lego set, skipped step 12, it's prob fine

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: build, skip, be · To what, where: lego set, prob

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	building	build	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 prob	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 set	det
3	lego	lego	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	compound
4	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 building	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 step	punct
6	skipped	skip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 step	amod
7	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	conj
8	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 step	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 building	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 prob	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 prob	cop
12	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 prob	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	build	gerund		the lego set and skipped step	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset set=Product
2	skip	participle			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	it	prob	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 glue to make it stay together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Use	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	glue		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glue=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	glue		tree rules
3	stay together	infinitive	glue not said here		together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Keep going, you'll fix it all at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fix	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fix	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fix	aux
6	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fix	obj
8	all	all	ADV	_	6 fix	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fix	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	go	gerund	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fix	future	you	it	at the end	all property	vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme at end=Value

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

Go back, follow it one step at a time and check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 follow	punct
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 step	nummod
7	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	obl:unmarked
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 check	cc
12	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here						vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	follow	infinitive	you not said here	it			time	one step obl:unmarked	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Throw away the instructions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Throw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 instructions	det
4	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	imperative	you not said here	the instructions				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme

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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