Test 15 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground
dared to jump off the top of the climbing frame
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: dare, jump off · To what, where: top
This is test 15 · ★ 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 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 jump | mark |
| 3 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 dared | xcomp |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jump | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 frame | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 frame | det |
| 9 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frame | compound |
| 10 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | jump off | to-infinitive | the top of the climbing frame | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme top=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Say no and climb down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 1 Say | discourse |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 climb | cc |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | conj |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 climb | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | climb down | present | you not said here | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Jump, it's not that high
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 high | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 high | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 high | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 high | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Jump | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | it | high, that property | tree rules |
Option 3
Jump onto the bark chips, they're soft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 5 chips | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chips | det |
| 4 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chips | compound |
| 5 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Jump | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 soft | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 soft | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 soft | cop |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Jump | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | imperative | you not said here | the bark chips | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto chip=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | chips = chip | soft property | tree rules |
Option 4
Jump holding a friend's hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Jump | xcomp |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 friend | case |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 holding | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | you not said here | a friend's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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