Test 12 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

kid grabbed our ball, i'm gonna grab it back

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, i · What happens: grab, grab back · To what, where: ball

This is test 12 · ★ 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ball	nmod:poss
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grab	punct
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 grab	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grab	aux
8	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 grab	dep
9	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grabbed	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grab	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 grab	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	kid	our ball					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	grab back	present	i	ball					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

Grab it back hard before he runs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grab	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Grab	advmod
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 runs	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 runs	nsubj
7	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Grab	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	it				hard property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	run	present	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Kick his ball away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ball	nmod:poss
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kick	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Kick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick away	imperative	you not said here	his ball				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ask politely, then tell a teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	politely	politely	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here					politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a teacher		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 4

Start a fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fight	det
3	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here	a fight					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality

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