Test 8 · ★ · Money in town and staying safe in crowds

Why do many big events give children a wristband to write a phone number on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many big events · What happens: give, write · To what, where: wristband, children, phone number

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 276 «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 give	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 events	amod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 events	amod
5	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wristband	det
9	wristband	wristband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 write	mark
11	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wristband	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 number	det
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 number	compound
14	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 write	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	11 write	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · do-support	many big events	a wristband	children				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient wristband=Theme
2	write	to-infinitive	many big events not said here	a phone number					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

So staff can reach a parent quickly if a child is lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 reach	advmod
2	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parent	det
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	obj
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 reach	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 lost	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux:pass
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reach	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	can	staff	a parent				quickly property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent parent=Theme
2	lose a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		a child					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

So children can skip the queue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 skip	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 skip	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 skip	aux
4	skip	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queue	det
6	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	can	children	the queue					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queue=Agent

Option 3

So the event can count how many came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 count	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 event	det
3	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 count	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 count	aux
5	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 count	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	can	the event						vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	come	past	many						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

So children can buy things without money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 buy	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buy	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 buy	aux
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buy	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	can	children	things				without money	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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