Test 19 · ★ · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

kids say the boy who drank from the bottle of weed killer "must be really dumb". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, boy · What happens: say, drink, be, pass on · To what, where: bottle, killer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dumb	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 drank	nsubj
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 bottle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottle	det
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drank	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 killer	case
11	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 killer	compound
12	killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bottle	nmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 bottle	punct
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 dumb	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 dumb	cop
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 dumb	advmod
17	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dumb	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pass	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	20 pass	compound:prt
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	the boy		the bottle of weed killer		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from bottle=Source
3	is in a quote	must	the boy			dumb property	tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive		killer			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and share it on the chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 share	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 share	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 share	cc
4	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 share	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 chat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chat	det
8	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present		it		the chat			tree rules

Option 2

Yes, he must be dumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 dumb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dumb	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dumb	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dumb	cop
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	he					dumb property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's unkind; just never drink from a bottle you're unsure of

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unkind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unkind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unkind	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 drink	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 drink	advmod
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 drink	advmod
9	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unkind	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 bottle	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bottle	det
12	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drink	obl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 unsure	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 unsure	cop
15	unsure	unsure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 unkind	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 unsure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		unkind property	tree rules
2	not drink	infinitive		a bottle		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from bottle=Source
3	is	present	you		unsure property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, and make up the rest of the story yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 make	cc
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 make	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 story	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rest	nmod
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	imperative	you not said here	the rest of the story				yourself obl	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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