Test 10 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

some man in the playground, no badge, waving me over

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: wave over · To what, where: me

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors 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	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 playground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 playground	det
5	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 badge	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 badge	det
8	badge	badge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waving	punct
10	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 man	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 waving	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	10 waving	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave over	gerund		me					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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

Go and see what he wants, he might be lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 see	cc
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 see	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wants	nsubj
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 lost	aux:pass
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	want	present	he		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	lose	might · passive		he	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

Wave back and keep playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Wave	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 keep	cc
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wave	conj
5	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wave back	imperative	you not said here	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	tree rules
3	play	gerund	you not said here	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Don't go, tell a teacher straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	imperative · do-support	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a teacher			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 4

Ask him for his name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 name	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		him = he			for his name	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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