Test 16 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

lil bro unbuckled himself in the back

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lil bro · What happens: unbuckle · To what, where: bro, back

This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 268 «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» 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 unbuckled	nsubj
3	unbuckled	unbuckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 unbuckled	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unbuckled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unbuckle	past	lil bro	bro		the back			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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 · ← Mova's choice

Ignore it, he's only small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 small	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 small	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ignore	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	he					small property	tree rules

Option 2

Hold him on your lap for the rest of the trip, that's just as safe

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 lap	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lap	nmod:poss
5	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 rest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 trip	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trip	det
11	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rest	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 safe	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 safe	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 safe	cop
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 safe	advmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 safe	advmod
17	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hold	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	him = he		your lap		for the rest of the trip	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on lap=Location
2	is	present	that					safe property	tree rules

Option 3

Unbuckle yourself to help him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unbuckle	unbuckle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Unbuckle	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 help	mark
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Unbuckle	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unbuckle	imperative	you not said here	yourself					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
2	help	to-infinitive	you not said here		him = he				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the driver so they can stop safely and buckle him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 driver	det
3	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	iobj
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 stop	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stop	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stop	aux
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
8	safely	safely	ADV	_	7 stop	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 buckle	cc
10	buckle	buckle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stop	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buckle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the driver		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop	can	they			safely property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	buckle	infinitive	they not said here	driver			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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