Test 19 · ★ · Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports

kids say the girl who sledded into the tree "can't steer, she's hopeless". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, girl · What happens: say, sled, not steer, be, pass on · To what, where: girl, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 304 «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» 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 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sledded	nsubj
6	sledded	sled	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 girl	acl:relcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sledded	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 steer	punct
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 steer	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 steer	advmod
13	steer	steer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 sledded	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hopeless	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hopeless	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hopeless	cop
17	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 steer	ccomp
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 steer	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pass	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	20 pass	compound:prt
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids	the girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic
2	sled	past	the girl		the tree		tree rules
3	not steer in a quote	can					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	girl			hopeless property	tree rules
5	pass on	infinitive		tree			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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and laugh about it at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 laugh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laugh	cc
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laugh	obl

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

Option 2

Yes, it's a funny story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, that's mean; just sled feet first away from trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 mean	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	cop
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 feet	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 feet	advmod
8	sled	sled	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feet	compound
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	parataxis
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 feet	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 trees	case
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					mean property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, she's hopeless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 hopeless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hopeless	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hopeless	cop
5	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					hopeless property	tree rules

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