Test 17 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

my sister says a kid broke a window, hid it and his dad "grounded him for a whole year". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, kid, dad · What happens: say, break, hide, ground, be, exaggerate · To what, where: window, kid, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	nsubj
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hid	punct
10	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broke	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hid	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grounded	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dad	nmod:poss
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grounded	nsubj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dad	punct
16	grounded	ground	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hid	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grounded	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 year	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 year	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 year	amod
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grounded	obl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 broke	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 prob	advmod
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 prob	cop
26	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
27	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	past	a kid	a window		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient
3	hide	past		window		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	ground in a quote	past	kid's dad	kid	year	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	is a	present		prob		tree rules
6	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here		tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

The whole year; still, hiding usually makes trouble bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 year	amod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obl:unmarked
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 hiding	punct
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 hiding	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 still	punct
7	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 makes	csubj
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 makes	advmod
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obj
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund					still		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	hiding	trouble			year	big, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trouble=Product

Option 2

That parents get upset at lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 lies	case
6	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	that parents			lies		upset property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

That owning up usually helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 owning	nsubj
2	owning	own	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 helps	csubj
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 owning	compound:prt
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 helps	advmod
5	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own up	gerund	That						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	help	present	owning					usually property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

That windows can break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 windows	det
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 break	aux
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	can	that windows						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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