Test 13 · ★ · Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places…

my nan says a boy knocked over a vase in the museum "worth a billion dollars". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, boy · What happens: say, knock over, be, exaggerate · To what, where: boy, vase, museum, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 324 «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nan	nmod:poss
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 boy	acl
7	over	over	ADP	_	6 knocked	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 vase	det
9	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 museum	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 museum	det
12	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
14	worth	worth	DET	PronType=Tot	17 dollars	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dollars	det
16	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 dollars	nummod
17	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dollars	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 prob	advmod
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 prob	cop
22	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
23	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my nan	a boy		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme dollar=Manner
2	knock over	participle	a boy not said here	a vase	the museum	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent vase=Theme in museum=Destination
3	is a	present		prob		tree rules
4	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here		tree rules

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

That exhibits are old and can break easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 exhibits	det
2	exhibits	exhibit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 old	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 break	cc
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 break	aux
7	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 old	conj
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	7 break	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that exhibits					old property	tree rules
2	break	can	that exhibits not said here					easily property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

That museums have vases

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 museums	det
2	museums	museum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	vases	vas	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	that museums	vases					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vas=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The billion; but exhibits are fragile, so don't touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 billion	det
2	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fragile	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 fragile	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 fragile	cc
5	exhibits	exhibit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fragile	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fragile	cop
7	fragile	fragile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 touch	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 touch	advmod
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 touch	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 touch	advmod
12	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 fragile	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the billion					fragile property	tree rules
2	not touch	infinitive · do-support							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

That some are old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 old	nsubj
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	1 That	conj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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