Test 13 · ★ · Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted

they dared me to stay underwater the longest

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: dare, stay · To what, where: me

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 315 «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dared	nsubj
2	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 dared	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dared	xcomp
6	underwater	underwater	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 longest	det
8	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 stay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	past	they	me					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay	to-infinitive	they not said here					underwater property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Do it, just come up when dizzy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Do	conj
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 come	compound:prt
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 dizzy	advmod
8	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	come up	infinitive	you not said here					dizzy property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say no; you can black out and drown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 black	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 black	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 black	aux
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	parataxis
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 black	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drown	cc
9	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	drown	infinitive	you not said here						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Do it if a friend is watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 watching	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watching	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	watch a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	a friend						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Do it in the shallow end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
5	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 end	amod
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it			in the shallow end		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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