Test 11 · ★ · Running games and the playground

tag's getting really rough, kids shoving

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: get, shove · To what, where: kids

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 247 «Running games and the playground» 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	tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 getting	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 tag	case
3	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 rough	advmod
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 getting	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kids	punct
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 getting	obl
8	shoving	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kids	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		kids				rough property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	shove	gerund	kids not said here						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

Keep playing and hope it stops by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hope	cc
4	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stops	nsubj
6	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hope	ccomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 stops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	play	gerund	you not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hope	present	you not said here		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	stop	present	it	by itself = it	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Shove back even harder so they stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shove	shove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Shove	advmod
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 harder	advmod
4	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Shove	advcl
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 stop	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stop	nsubj
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shove	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove back	imperative	you not said here						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present	they						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Say stop, and tell an adult if it doesn't stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 stop	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stop	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stop	advmod
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	infinitive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	not stop a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	adult		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Run away and say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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