Test 15 · ★ · Running games and the playground

mate bumped heads with me, now he's sleepy and feels sick

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: bump, be, feel · To what, where: heads

This is test 15 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bumped	nsubj
2	bumped	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bumped	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 bumped	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sleepy	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sleepy	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sleepy	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sleepy	cop
10	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bumped	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feels	cc
12	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sleepy	conj
13	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bump	past	mate	heads		with me	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with i=Instrument
2	is	present	mate		now	sleepy property	tree rules
3	feel	present	mate not said here			sick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Give him a fizzy drink n a biscuit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drink	det
4	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drink	amod
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
6	n	and	CCONJ	Abbr=Yes	8 biscuit	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 biscuit	det
8	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a fizzy drink and a biscuit	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=Theme

Option 2

Get him to run it off round the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Get	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 run	mark
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Get	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 run	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	run off	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	it		the field			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme round field=Trajectory

Option 3

Let him have a nap n sleep it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nap	det
5	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	n	n	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sleep	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 sleep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he	tree rules
2	have	infinitive	him = he not said here	a nap	tree rules
3	sleep off	infinitive	a nap not said here	nap	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult now, he needs checking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 needs	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
8	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 needs	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a adult	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	need	present	adult			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	check not said to happen	gerund	adult not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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