Test 14 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

lil bro has coins in his mouth

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: lil bro · What happens: have · To what, where: coins, mouth

This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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 bro	amod
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coins	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	lil bro	coins		bro's mouth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=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

Wait until he spits them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 spits	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spits	nsubj
4	spits	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spits	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 spits	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spit out	present	he	them = they					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Take them out gently and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Take	compound:prt
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	imperative	you not said here	them = they				gently property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 3

Let him, coins are clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 clean	punct
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clean	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clean	cop
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	present	coins					clean property	tree rules

Option 4

Give him more to play with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Give	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 play	mark
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	5 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	more	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient more=Theme
2	play	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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