Test 12 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

broke nans vase. hide it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nans vase · What happens: hide · To what, where: it

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 285 «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» 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	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nans	amod
2	nans	nan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 vase	compound
3	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	nsubj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 vase	punct
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hide	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	infinitive	nans vase	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

Hide the pieces and say nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pieces	det
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hide	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 say	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	the pieces					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	you not said here	nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell her straight away and say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Glue it and put it back quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glue	glue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Glue	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 put	cc
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Glue	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	imperative	you not said here	it					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	put back	infinitive	you not said here	it				quietly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

Option 4

Blame the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	the dog					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

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