Test 17 · ★ · Handling anger and everyday fears

brother hits me when hes mad

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: hit · To what, where: me

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 291 «Handling anger and everyday fears» 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	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hits	nsubj
2	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hits	obj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 mad	advmod
5	hes	he	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mad	nsubj
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hits	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	brother	me				mad property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme

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 in your room every time he's mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 room	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 room	nmod:poss
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl:unmarked
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mad	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mad	cop
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here			your room	time		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	is	present	he	every time not said here				mad property	tree rules

Option 2

Hit him back even harder so he learns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Hit	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 harder	advmod
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Hit	advcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 learns	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 learns	nsubj
8	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit back	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	learn	present	he						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Keep quiet so he doesn't get in trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 trouble	case
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not get	present · do-support	he			trouble			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a parent; hitting is never OK

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parent	det
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 OK	punct
5	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 OK	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 OK	cop
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 OK	advmod
8	OK	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a parent		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
2	hit	gerund				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	present			ok property	tree rules

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