Test 16 · ★ · Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed,…

kids are saying Ben "stinks cos he never showers". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, Ben · What happens: say, stink, not shower, pass on · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 317 «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food» 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	3 saying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stinks	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Ben	punct
6	stinks	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 showers	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 showers	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 showers	advmod
10	showers	shower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stinks	advcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 showers	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pass	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	13 pass	compound:prt
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	kids		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stink in a quote	present	Ben		vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
3	not shower in a quote	present	Ben		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pass on	infinitive	kids not said here	it	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, he stinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stinks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stinks	nsubj
4	stinks	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stink	present	he						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location

Option 2

Yes, and spray him with deodorant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 spray	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spray	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 spray	cc
4	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spray	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 deodorant	case
7	deodorant	deodorant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spray	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	imperative	you not said here		him = he			with deodorant	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with deodorant=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, tell the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's mean and probably untrue; don't spread it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 untrue	cc
7	probably	probably	ADV	_	8 untrue	advmod
8	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mean	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 spread	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 spread	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 spread	advmod
12	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mean	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spread	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		mean property	tree rules
2	be				probably property	tree rules
3	not spread	infinitive · do-support		it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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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