Test 18 · ★ · Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm

my brother says someone hid a boy's shoes and he "had to walk home barefoot in the snow for 3 miles". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, someone · What happens: say, hide, have, walk, be, exaggerate · To what, where: shoes, snow, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 278 «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm» 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 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoes	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 boy	case
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hid	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hid	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 walk	mark
15	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 walk	advmod
17	barefoot	barefoot	ADV	_	15 walk	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 snow	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 snow	det
20	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walk	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 miles	case
22	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 miles	nummod
23	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 walk	obl
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 miles	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 prob	advmod
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 prob	cop
28	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
29	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hide	past	someone	a boy's shoes			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
3	have in a quote	past	brother				tree rules
4	walk in a quote	to-infinitive	brother not said here		the snow	for 3 miles; barefoot, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=Trajectory
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 shoes are needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 shoes	det
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needed	aux:pass
4	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		that shoes					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The snow and the miles; hiding things people need still hurts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hurts	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 miles	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 miles	det
5	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snow	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 hiding	punct
7	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 hurts	csubj
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hiding	obj
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 things	acl:relcl
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 hurts	advmod
12	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hide	gerund		things		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	need	present	people	things not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
3	hurt	present	the snow and the miles		still	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

That hiding things is a prank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 prank	nsubj
2	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 prank	csubj
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hiding	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 prank	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prank	det
6	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		things					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	is a	present	That	a prank					tree rules

Option 4

That the boy was upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 upset	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 upset	cop
5	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that boy					upset property	tree rules

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