Test 19 · ★ · Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games

kids say the boy in band "plays like a cat being sat on". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: say, play, sit on, pass on · To what, where: boy, band, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 band	case
6	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plays	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 band	punct
8	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 cat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plays	obl
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sat	aux:pass
13	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 plays	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pass	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	17 pass	compound:prt
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids	the boy			tree rules
2	play in a quote	present			band	like a cat	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit on in a quote	gerund · passive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»
4	pass on	infinitive		cat			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Yes, and copy his playing at break so everyone laughs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 copy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 copy	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 copy	cc
4	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 playing	nmod:poss
6	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copy	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 break	case
8	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copy	obl
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 laughs	mark
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 laughs	nsubj
11	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 copy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	his playing	break	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent playing=Theme at break=Destination
2	laugh	present	everyone			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play		his = he			nom playing «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Yes, it's funny and true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 funny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 funny	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 funny	cop
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 true	cc
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 funny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					funny property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, that's unkind; practice a little each day helps anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unkind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 unkind	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 unkind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unkind	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 practice	punct
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 helps	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 little	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 practice	amod
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 little	obl:unmarked
12	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unkind	parataxis
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 helps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					unkind property	tree rules
2	help	present	practice		anyone				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and tell the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

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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