Test 19 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

my mate says a kid touched a painting in the museum and "his parents had to pay a million pounds". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, kid, parents · What happens: say, touch, have, pay, be, exaggerate · To what, where: painting, museum, million pounds, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	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 touched	nsubj
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 painting	det
8	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 museum	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 museum	det
11	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 parents	nmod:poss
15	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touched	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 pay	mark
18	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 million	det
20	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pounds	nummod
21	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pay	obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 pounds	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	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	touch	past	a kid	a painting	the museum	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme painting=Co-Theme
3	have in a quote	past	kid's parents			tree rules
4	pay in a quote	to-infinitive	kid's parents not said here	million pounds		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Asset
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

That exhibits can be fragile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 exhibits	det
2	exhibits	exhibit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fragile	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fragile	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fragile	cop
5	fragile	fragile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	that exhibits					fragile property	tree rules

Option 2

That signs say don't touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 signs	det
2	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 touch	advmod
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 do	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	that signs	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	infinitive		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not touch	infinitive		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

That museums have old paintings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 museums	det
2	museums	museum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paintings	amod
5	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	that museums	old paintings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The million; but don't touch exhibits, they're old and fragile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 million	det
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 touch	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 touch	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 touch	cc
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 touch	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 touch	advmod
7	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	exhibits	exhibit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 old	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 touch	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fragile	cc
14	fragile	fragile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not touch	infinitive · do-support	the million	exhibits		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exhibit=Co-Theme
2	is	present	exhibits = exhibit		old property	tree rules
3	be		exhibits = exhibit not said here			tree rules

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