Test 15 · ★★ · Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing…

kids say the girl with glasses "is half blind, four eyes". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids, girl · What happens: say, be, pass on · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 318 «Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses» 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	10 blind	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 glasses	case
6	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 girl	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 glasses	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 blind	cop
9	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 blind	advmod
10	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eyes	punct
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eyes	nummod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blind	parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 eyes	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pass	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	16 pass	compound:prt
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	the girl with glasses		blind, half property	tree rules
3	pass on	infinitive		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, it's just a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Yes, it's true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, needing glasses is normal and teasing is unkind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 normal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	needing	need	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 normal	csubj
4	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needing	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 normal	cop
6	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 unkind	cc
8	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unkind	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 unkind	cop
10	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 normal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	gerund		glasses		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme
2	is	present	needing		normal property	tree rules
3	is	present	teasing		unkind property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, and hide her glasses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hide	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hide	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hide	cc
4	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 glasses	nmod:poss
6	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	her glasses					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient

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