Test 16 · ★ · Safe toys and fair board games

balloon popped, baby picking up the bits

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: balloon, baby · What happens: pop, pick up · To what, where: baby, bits

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 302 «Safe toys and fair board games» 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	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 popped	nsubj
2	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 baby	punct
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 popped	obj
5	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 baby	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 picking	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bits	det
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 picking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop	past	balloon	baby					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
2	pick up	gerund	baby not said here	the bits					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic

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

Leave them, they're soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leave	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 soft	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 soft	cop
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	present	they					soft property	tree rules

Option 2

Only the big pieces are dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 pieces	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pieces	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pieces	amod
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dangerous	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the big pieces					dangerous property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Take them away; balloon pieces can choke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 choke	punct
5	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pieces	compound
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 choke	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 choke	aux
8	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	imperative	you not said here	them = they				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	choke	can	balloon pieces						vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Let her chew one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 chew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	her = she					tree rules
2	chew	infinitive	her = she not said here	one					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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