Test 9 · ★ · Younger children, losing and practising

lil sis lost at snap n she's crying

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: lose, cry · To what, where: lil sis, snap n

This is test 9 · ★ 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	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sis	amod
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sis	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 n	case
5	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 n	compound
6	n	n	NOUN	_	3 lost	obl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 crying	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 crying	aux
9	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 n	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle		lil sis not said here		snap n			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at n=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	present · progressive	she	snap n not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent n=Topic

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

Tell her she's a bad loser

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loser	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 loser	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 loser	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 loser	amod
7	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a	present	she	a bad loser					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Comfort her and play again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comfort	comfort	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Comfort	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 play	cc
4	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Comfort	conj
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comfort	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2	play	infinitive	you not said here				again		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Stop playing with her forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 playing	obl
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 playing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	play	gerund	you not said here					with her = she; forever property	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent

Option 4

Laugh and win again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 win	cc
3	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 win	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	win	infinitive	you not said here				again		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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