Test 18 · ★ · Covering up, false alarms and playing fair

someone said a kid prank called 911 and "the police came with 10 cars and arrested his whole family". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, kid prank, police · What happens: say, call, come, arrest, be, exaggerate · To what, where: 911, whole family, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 277 «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prank	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prank	compound
5	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	911	911	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 called	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 police	det
11	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 cars	case
14	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 cars	nummod
15	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 arrested	cc
17	arrested	arrest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 family	nmod:poss
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 family	amod
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arrested	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 arrested	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 prob	advmod
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 prob	cop
25	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
26	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	someone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call speech: assert	past	a kid prank	911		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 911=Recipient
3	come in a quote	past	the police		with 10 cars	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	arrest in a quote	past	a kid prank not said here	prank's whole family		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient
5	is a	present		prob		tree rules
6	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 · ← Mova's choice

That prank calls are wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 prank	det
2	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	compound
3	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrong	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	prank calls					wrong property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The 10 cars and the arrests; prank calls are still illegal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cars	det
2	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 cars	nummod
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 illegal	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 arrests	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 arrests	det
6	arrests	arrest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cars	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 calls	punct
8	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 calls	compound
9	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cars	conj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 illegal	cop
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 illegal	advmod
12	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the 10 cars and the arrests and prank calls				still	illegal property	tree rules

Option 3

That prank calls tie up help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 prank	det
2	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	compound
3	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tie	nsubj
4	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 tie	compound:prt
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tie	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	present	prank calls	help					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient

Option 4

That 911 is an emergency number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 911	det
2	911	911	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 number	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 number	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 number	det
5	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 number	compound
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that 911	a emergency number					tree rules

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