Test 18 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites

did u hear a kid climbed in the building site and "fell in a hole 50 feet deep". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u · What happens: hear, climb, fall, be, exaggerate · To what, where: kid, building site, hole, prob

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kid	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 site	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 site	det
9	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 site	compound
10	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 climbed	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hole	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hole	det
16	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 feet	nummod
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 deep	obl:unmarked
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hole	amod
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 deep	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 prob	advmod
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 prob	cop
24	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl
25	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	a kid		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus
2	climb	participle		a kid not said here	the building site	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in site=Trajectory
3	fall in a quote	past			a hole	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hole=Location
4	is a	present		prob		tree rules
5	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here		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

That fences are there to keep people out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 fences	det
2	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 there	advcl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 keep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that fences					there property	tree rules
2	keep out	to-infinitive	that fences not said here	people					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

Option 2

That building sites have holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 building	det
2	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sites	compound
3	sites	site	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	building sites	holes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That machines work on the site

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 machines	det
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 site	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 site	det
6	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	that machines					on the site	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on site=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The exact depth; the real lesson is stay out of building sites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 depth	det
2	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 depth	amod
3	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 lesson	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lesson	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lesson	amod
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depth	conj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stay	cop
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 sites	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sites	case
12	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sites	compound
13	sites	site	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the exact depth and the real lesson			building sites		stay property	tree rules

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