Test 17 · ★ · Safe toys and fair board games

toy got recalled, it says on the news

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: toy · What happens: recall, say · To what, where: toy, news · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recalled	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recalled	aux:pass
3	recalled	recall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 recalled	parataxis
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 news	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 news	det
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recall	past · passive		toy					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	toy			the news			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Stop using it and tell a parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 using	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 parent	det
7	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	use	gerund	you not said here	it		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a parent	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

Option 2

Keep using it till it breaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 using	obj
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 breaks	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 breaks	nsubj
6	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 using	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	use	gerund	you not said here	it	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	break	present	it		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Give it to a younger child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 child	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it	a younger child				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to child=Recipient

Option 4

Only worry if it's broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 worry	advmod
2	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 broken	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 broken	nsubj:pass
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux:pass
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 worry	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worry	imperative	you not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	break a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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