Test 7 · ★ · Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares

Why do people use dares?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: use · To what, where: dares

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 use	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	dares	dare	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · do-support	people	dares					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dare=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

To help you stay safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 help	obj
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive		you					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	stay	infinitive	you not said here					safe property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To help you make good and sensible choices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	advcl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 help	obj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 choices	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sensible	cc
7	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 good	conj
8	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive	you not said here		you				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
2	make	imperative	you not said here	good choices					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product

Option 3

To teach you new skills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 teach	mark
2	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 teach	iobj
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skills	amod
5	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	to-infinitive		new skills	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient skill=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To make you feel you must prove something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 prove	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 prove	aux
7	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feel	ccomp
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 prove	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		you	tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	you not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	prove	must	you	something	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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