Test 14 · ★★ · Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail ma…

my mate says a girl slipped on the icy slide and "her head cracked open like an egg". what's the true bit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, head · What happens: say, slip, crack, be · To what, where: girl, icy slide, true bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 325 «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety» 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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	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 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
6	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 girl	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 slide	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 slide	det
9	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 slide	amod
10	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slipped	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cracked	cc
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 cracked	punct
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cracked	nsubj
15	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slipped	conj
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cracked	xcomp
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 egg	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 egg	det
19	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cracked	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 egg	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 bit	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bit	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bit	det
25	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bit	amod
26	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	slip	participle		a girl not said here	the icy slide		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	crack in a quote	past	girl's head			like a egg; open property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present		the true bit			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

Only big kids fall on ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 kids	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kids	amod
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
4	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	big kids			ice			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ice=Location

Option 2

Ice makes slides safer and faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slides	slide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 faster	cc
6	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 safer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Ice	slides				safe property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slide=Product

Option 3

Icy slides are fine with gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slides	amod
2	slides	slide	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fine	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 gloves	case
6	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Icy slides					with gloves; fine property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Keep off icy playground equipment; falls on ice are hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Keep	compound:prt
3	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 equipment	amod
4	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 equipment	compound
5	equipment	equipment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 falls	punct
7	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hard	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 ice	case
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 falls	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	cop
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep off	imperative	you not said here	icy playground equipment					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equipment=Theme
2	is	present	falls on ice					hard property	tree rules

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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