Test 14 · ★ · Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares

they dared me to eat a whole spoon of cinnamon, its just spice right

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: dare, eat · To what, where: me, whole spoon

This is test 14 · ★ 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	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 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dared	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spoon	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spoon	amod
8	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cinnamon	case
10	cinnamon	cinnamon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoon	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spice	punct
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 spice	nmod:poss
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 spice	advmod
14	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dared	obl
15	right	right	ADV	_	2 dared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	past	they	me				cinnamon's spice obl; right property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	eat	to-infinitive	they not said here	a whole spoon of cinnamon					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Patient

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

Yes, if you drink water at the same time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 drink	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drink	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 drink	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 drink	nsubj
5	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	you	water			time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it can choke you; say no thanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 choke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 choke	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 choke	aux
5	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 choke	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 choke	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 thanks	det
10	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	can	it		you				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Destination
2	say speech: assert	infinitive		no thanks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic

Option 3

Yes, everyone else did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 did	nsubj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 everyone	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	everyone	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, it's only a spice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 spice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spice	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spice	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 spice	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spice	det
7	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a spice					tree rules

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