Test 12 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

big kid says gimme your money or else. i'm scared

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: big kid, i · What happens: say, be · To what, where: gimme · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 262 «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kid	amod
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gimme	gimme	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 money	nmod:poss
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 else	cc
8	else	else	ADV	_	6 money	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 scared	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 scared	cop
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	big kid	gimme					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent gimme=Theme money=Manner
2	is	present	i					scared property	tree rules

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

Keep it secret forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				forever, secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Give it if you feel unsafe, then tell a trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 feel	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	advcl
6	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 adult	det
11	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 adult	amod
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	feel a condition, not said to happen	present	you				unsafe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a trusted adult	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	trust	participle						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Fight him for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fight	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	imperative	you not said here	him = he				for it	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 4

Run into the road to escape from him, cars will stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 road	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 escape	mark
6	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Run	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 escape	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
10	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stop	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	aux
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Run	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here	into the road result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into road=Result
2	escape	to-infinitive	you not said here	from him = he	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location
3	stop	future	cars		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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