Test 16 · ★★ · Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes
did u hear a kid at the footy carnival in the heat got all confused and stopped sweating and they rushed him off in an ambulance? real lesson?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, heat, they · What happens: hear, get, stop, sweat, rush off · To what, where: kid, footy carnival, heat, ambulance
This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 2 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 carnival | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 carnival | det |
| 8 | footy | footy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 carnival | amod |
| 9 | carnival | carnival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heat | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heat | det |
| 12 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | parataxis |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 confused | advmod |
| 15 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 got | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stopped | cc |
| 17 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | conj |
| 18 | sweating | sweat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 stopped | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rushed | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rushed | nsubj |
| 21 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rushed | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 rushed | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 ambulance | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ambulance | det |
| 26 | ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rushed | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 28 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lesson | amod |
| 29 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | u | a kid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the heat | the footy carnival | confused property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | stop | past | the heat not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sweat | gerund | the heat not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | rush off | past | they | heat | a ambulance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in ambulance=Trajectory |
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
Not sweating means he's fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 sweating | advmod |
| 2 | sweating | sweat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fine | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | cop |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sweat | gerund | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | he | fine property | tree rules |
Option 2
Make him run it off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 run | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 run | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run off | infinitive | him = he not said here | it | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Hot, confused and not sweating is heatstroke; cool him and get help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cool | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 confused | punct |
| 3 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hot | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 heatstroke | cc |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sweating | advmod |
| 6 | sweating | sweat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 heatstroke | amod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heatstroke | cop |
| 8 | heatstroke | heatstroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hot | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hot | punct |
| 10 | cool | cool | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cool | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 cool | conj |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sweat | gerund | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | you not said here | sweating heatstroke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cool | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | you not said here | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
He just needed a nap in the sun
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 needed | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 needed | advmod |
| 3 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nap | det |
| 5 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | He | a nap | the sun | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nap=Theme |
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