Test 15 · ★★ · Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail ma…

kids say the boy who got a blister on the hike "is soft". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids, boy · What happens: say, get, be, pass on · To what, where: blister, hike · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	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 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 soft	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 blister	det
8	blister	blister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 hike	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hike	det
11	hike	hike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 soft	cop
14	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 soft	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pass	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	17 pass	compound:prt
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	the boy	a blister	the hike		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blister=Theme on hike=Source
3	is in a quote	present	the boy			soft property	tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive		blister			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's soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, that's unkind; tell a grown-up early and cover it

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unkind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 unkind	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 unkind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unkind	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unkind	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 grown	det
9	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 grown	compound
12	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 tell	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cover	cc
14	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	that		unkind property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive		a grown	early property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient
3	cover	infinitive		grown		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination

Option 3

Yes, and laugh at his limp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 laugh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laugh	cc
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 limp	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 limp	nmod:poss
7	limp	limp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present				his limp			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	limp		his = he						nom limp «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yes, it is just true, real hikers never get blisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 true	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hikers	amod
9	hikers	hiker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 get	advmod
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	parataxis
12	blisters	blister	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					true property	tree rules
2	not get	present	real hikers	blisters					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blister=Stimulus

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