Test 15 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

broke mums vase, gonna hide the bits

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: break, hide · To what, where: mums, bits

This is test 15 · ★ 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	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 broke	obj
3	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 broke	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hide	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 hide	dep
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 broke	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bits	det
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past		mums					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent mum=Patient vase=Result
2	hide	infinitive		the bits					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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

Hide it and say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj

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

Option 2

Glue it and hope she won't notice

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 hope	cc
4	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Glue	conj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 notice	nsubj
6	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 notice	advmod
8	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hope	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	glue	imperative	you not said here	it	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	hope	present	you not said here		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	not notice	future	she		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tell her now 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	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Tell	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 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		now		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 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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