Test 11 · ★ · Music practice and ball games

friend wants a go on my recorder, just hand it over?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: want, hand over · To what, where: go, recorder

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» 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	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 go	det
4	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 recorder	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 recorder	nmod:poss
7	recorder	recorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hand	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 hand	advmod
10	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hand	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	10 hand	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	friend	a go		my recorder			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot go=Theme
2	hand over	infinitive		go					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if they blow softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 blow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blow	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 blow	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blow	nsubj
5	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	softly	softly	ADV	_	5 blow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	they					softly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, recorders don't carry germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 carry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	recorders	recorder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 carry	advmod
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not carry	present · do-support	recorders	germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Clean the mouthpiece first, germs pass between mouths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouthpiece	det
3	mouthpiece	mouthpiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clean	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Clean	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pass	punct
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pass	nsubj
7	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Clean	conj
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 mouths	case
9	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	imperative	you not said here	the mouthpiece				first property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouthpiece=Patient
2	pass	present	germs			mouths			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between mouth=Location

Option 4

Only lick it clean first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 lick	advmod
2	lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lick	obj
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lick	xcomp
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 lick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	imperative	you not said here	it				clean, first property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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