Test 15 · ★ · Airports and planes

my brother said 'theres a bomb in my bag lol' at security

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: say · To what, where: theres, security · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 271 «Airports and planes» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 theres	punct
5	theres	there	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bomb	det
7	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lol	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bag	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bag	nmod:poss
10	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bomb	nmod
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 said	parataxis
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 lol	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 security	case
14	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my brother	theres		security			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent there=Topic

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

It's fine, everyone knows it's a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knows	punct
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 knows	nsubj
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 joke	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 joke	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 joke	det
10	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fine property	tree rules
2	know	present	everyone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	it	a joke		tree rules

Option 2

It's fine if you laugh afterwards so the guards know you didn't mean it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 laugh	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 laugh	nsubj
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 laugh	advmod
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 know	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mean	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 mean	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mean	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 mean	advmod
15	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 laugh	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fine property	tree rules
2	laugh a condition, not said to happen	present	you		afterwards property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	the guards			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not mean	past · do-support	you	it		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That can get people arrested and flights stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 get	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj
5	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stopped	cc
7	flights	flight	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	can	That	people	tree rules
2	arrest	participle	people not said here		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	stop	past	flights		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Only adults get in trouble for that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 adults	advmod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 trouble	case
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	adults			trouble		for that	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for that=Source

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