Test 15 · ★ · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

autistic boy covers his ears at assembly

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: autistic boy · What happens: cover · To what, where: ears, assembly

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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	autistic	autistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boy	amod
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covers	nsubj
3	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ears	nmod:poss
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covers	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 assembly	case
7	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	autistic boy	boy's ears		assembly			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Destination

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

Shout louder so he hears you better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Shout	xcomp
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 hears	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hears	nsubj
5	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hears	obj
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 hears	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here					loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	present	he	you				good property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Laugh at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Be calm and kind; loud noise can hurt him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 calm	cop
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 noise	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kind	cc
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 calm	conj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 calm	punct
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 noise	amod
7	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			calm property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	hurt	can	calm loud noise	him = he		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

Option 4

Pull his hands away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pull	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Pull	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull away	imperative	you not said here	his hands				away property	tree rules

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