Test 9 · ★ · Running games and the playground

On a hot August day in Florida, a boy sits straight down on a black plastic slide in full sun. What might happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, full sun. · What happens: sit, happen · To what, where: black plastic slide

This is test 9 · ★ 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 day	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
4	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 day	compound
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Florida	case
7	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	nsubj
11	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 down	advmod
13	down	down	ADV	_	11 sits	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 slide	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 slide	det
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 slide	amod
17	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slide	compound
18	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sun.	case
20	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sun.	amod
21	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slide	nmod
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 happen	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 happen	aux
24	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sun.	acl:relcl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	a boy			a black plastic slide in full sun.	day	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on slide=Location
2	happen	might	full sun.						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He would slide too slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slide	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 slide	aux
3	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 slide	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 slide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	would	He					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The slide would feel cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 slide	det
2	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	the slide					cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He could burn his legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burn	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 burn	aux
3	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 legs	nmod:poss
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	could	He	his legs					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Theme

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