Test 19 · ★ · Holidays of the region

apparently on Halloween someone put razor blades in all the sweets on our street. probably just a rumour?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: put · To what, where: razor blades, someone

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 265 «Holidays of the region» 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 someone	case
3	Halloween	Halloween	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 someone	compound
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 put	obl
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blades	compound
7	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 sweets	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sweets	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sweets	det
11	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 street	case
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 street	nmod:poss
14	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
16	probably	probably	ADV	_	19 rumour	advmod
17	just	just	ADV	_	19 rumour	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 rumour	det
19	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past		razor blades		someone		in all sweets; on our street; a rumour obl; apparently property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent blade=Theme on someone=Destination

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

No, it happens every year to everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 happens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	obl:unmarked
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	it				year	to everyone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Very likely, but adults still check treats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 likely	advmod
2	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 check	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 check	cc
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 check	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 check	advmod
7	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 likely	conj
8	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	present	adults	treats			still		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treat=Theme

Option 3

No, so never trick-or-treat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 trick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 trick	advmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 trick	advmod
5	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 treat	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 treat	cc
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 or	punct
9	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trick	imperative	you not said here	treat					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, all sweets have blades in them now, so throw them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sweets	det
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blades	nmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 have	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 throw	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 throw	advmod
12	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 throw	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	12 throw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	all sweets	blades			now	in blades = blade	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Patient
2	throw away	infinitive	all sweets not said here	sweets = sweet				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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