Test 13 · ★ · Younger children, losing and practising

watching my bro at the pool, gonna check my phone for a sec

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: watch, check · To what, where: bro, pool, phone

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 251 «Younger children, losing and practising» 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	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 check	csubj
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bro	nmod:poss
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 watching	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 pool	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pool	det
6	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 watching	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 watching	punct
8	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 check	dep
9	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 phone	nmod:poss
11	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 check	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 sec	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sec	det
14	sec	sec	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund		my bro		the pool			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=Theme
2	check	imperative	you not said here	my phone				for a sec	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent phone=Theme for sec=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

Keep your eyes on him the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	your eyes			time	on him = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on he=Location

Option 2

Fine if he's in the shallow end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 end	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 end	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 end	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
7	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 end	amod
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he				in the shallow end		tree rules

Option 3

Fine for a few seconds, nothing happens that fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothing	amod
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 seconds	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seconds	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seconds	amod
5	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fine	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 happens	nsubj
8	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fast	nsubj
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 happens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	nothing					fast property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Only if he has his armbands on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 has	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 has	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 armbands	nmod:poss
6	armbands	armband	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	4 has	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have on	present	he	his armbands					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armband=Patient

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