Test 15 · ★ · Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted

looking after my little cousin at the park, got a text

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: look, get · To what, where: text

This is test 15 · ★ 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	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 got	advcl
2	after	after	ADP	_	5 cousin	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cousin	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cousin	amod
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 looking	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 park	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 park	det
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cousin	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 looking	punct
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 text	det
12	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund					after my little cousin at the park		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	past		a text					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer text=Stimulus

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

Reply quickly, she'll be fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reply	reply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Reply	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fine	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Reply	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	imperative	you not said here					quickly property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	future	she					fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Sit and chat on your phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 chat	cc
3	chat	chat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 phone	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 phone	nmod:poss
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chat speech: other	infinitive	you not said here			your phone			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Let her go off alone

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	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 go	compound:prt
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 go	advmod

#	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	go off	infinitive	her = she not said here					alone property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Keep your eyes on her first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 first	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 first	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	your eyes		her first			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on first=Location

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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