Test 11 · ★ · Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares

mates dared me to jump off the garage roof

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mates · What happens: dare, jump off · To what, where: me, garage roof

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 284 «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dared	nsubj
2	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 dared	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 jump	mark
5	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dared	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	9 roof	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
8	garage	garage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roof	compound
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	past	mates	me					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	jump off	to-infinitive	mates not said here	the garage roof					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme roof=Trajectory

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

Do it once to prove yourself to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Do	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 prove	mark
5	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Do	advcl
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 prove	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it				once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	prove	to-infinitive	you not said here	yourself	them = they				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say no thanks, you could break bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 thanks	det
3	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 break	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 break	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 break	aux
7	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	conj
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	no thanks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
2	break	could	you	bones					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient

Option 3

Do it if you land on grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 land	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 land	nsubj
5	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Do	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 grass	case
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	land a condition, not said to happen	present	you			grass			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on grass=Destination

Option 4

Jump only if they go first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Jump	advcl
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go a condition, not said to happen	present	they					first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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