Test 16 · ★ · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

did u hear a boy kept pushing a kid's wheelchair for a laugh and "it tipped and she broke her wrist". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, boy, wheelchair, kid · What happens: hear, keep, push, tip, break · To what, where: lesson, wheelchair, wrist · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ 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	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 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
7	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wheelchair	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 kid	case
11	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushing	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 laugh	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 laugh	det
14	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushing	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tipped	cc
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tipped	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tipped	nsubj
18	tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 broke	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 broke	nsubj
21	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tipped	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wrist	nmod:poss
23	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broke	obj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tipped	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
26	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	lesson		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	keep	past	a boy			tree rules
3	push	gerund	a boy not said here	a kid's wheelchair	for a laugh	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelchair=Theme
4	tip in a quote	past	wheelchair			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	break in a quote	past	kid	kid's wrist		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient

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

Wheelchairs can't tip over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wheelchairs	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tip	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tip	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tip	advmod
4	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 tip	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tip over	can	Wheelchairs					over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Never push or lean on a wheelchair without asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 push	advmod
2	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 lean	cc
4	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 push	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 wheelchair	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wheelchair	det
7	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lean	obl
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 asking	mark
9	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lean	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not push	imperative	you not said here		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	lean	infinitive	you not said here	a wheelchair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wheelchair=Location
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	you not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only adults can push them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 adults	advmod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 push	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 push	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	can	adults	them = they					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Pushing is fine if you go slowly and only do it for a laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 go	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 do	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fine	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 laugh	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 laugh	det
14	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push	gerund				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present			fine property	tree rules
3	go a condition, not said to happen	present	you		slowly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	infinitive		it	for a laugh	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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