Test 9 · ★ · Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted

they dared me to skip maths n hide in the loos

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, maths · What happens: dare, skip, n, hide · To what, where: me, maths, loos

This is test 9 · ★ 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 skip	mark
5	skip	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dared	xcomp
6	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hide	nsubj
7	n	n	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 maths	acl
8	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 skip	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 loos	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loos	det
11	loos	loo	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dare	past	they	me		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	skip	to-infinitive	they not said here			tree rules
3	n	participle		maths not said here		tree rules
4	hide	present	maths		the loos	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in loo=Location

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

Say no thanks, staff must always know where you are

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	DET	PronType=Neg	3 thanks	det
3	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
5	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thanks	conj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 know	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 where	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	no thanks		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
2	know	must	staff		always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	you		where property	tree rules

Option 2

Only skip the boring half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 skip	advmod
2	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 half	det
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 half	amod
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 skip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	imperative	you not said here	the boring half					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Agent

Option 3

Do it once, nobody will notice that one kid is missing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 notice	advcl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Do	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 notice	punct
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 notice	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 notice	aux
7	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 missing	mark
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 kid	nummod
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 missing	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 missing	cop
12	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 notice	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	infinitive	nobody not said here	it	once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	notice	future	nobody			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	one kid		missing property	tree rules

Option 4

Do it if you're back by lunch

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	_	6 back	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 back	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 back	cop
6	back	back	ADV	_	1 Do	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 lunch	case
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obl

#	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	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you					by lunch; back property	tree rules

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