Test 17 · ★ · Being trusted and what to do with things you find

did u hear a kid found a wallet with "like 300 dollars" and kept it, then the police turned up at school. lesson?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, kid, police · What happens: hear, find, keep, turn up · To what, where: lesson, wallet, school

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 286 «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wallet	det
8	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 dollars	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 dollars	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	13 dollars	discourse
12	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 dollars	nummod
13	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wallet	nmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 dollars	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kept	cc
16	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kept	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 turned	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 police	det
21	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 turned	nsubj
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 turned	compound:prt
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 school	case
25	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
27	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	lesson				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	find	past	a kid	a wallet			with 300 dollars	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Topic
3	keep	past	a kid not said here	wallet				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	turn up	past	the police		school	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at school=Location

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

Keep it if nobody saw you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 saw	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	see a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2

Only hand in wallets with ID

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 hand	advmod
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 wallets	case
4	wallets	wallet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hand	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 ID	case
6	ID	id	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wallets	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hand in things you find; keeping them can count as theft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 count	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 things	case
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hand	nmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 things	acl:relcl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 count	punct
7	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 count	csubj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keeping	obj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 count	aux
10	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 theft	case
12	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	present	you	things not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	keep	gerund		things = thing		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	count	can	Hand in things		as theft	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as theft=Attribute

Option 4

Finders keepers, it's the rule, so the police can't do anything

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finders	finder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keepers	compound
2	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rule	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rule	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rule	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rule	det
7	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keepers	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 do	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 police	det
11	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 do	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 do	advmod
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 keepers	conj
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the rule					tree rules
2	not do	can	the police	anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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