Test 12 · ★ · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…

did u hear a baby got a yo-yo string round her neck in the cot and "turned blue before her mum got there". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, baby, mum · What happens: hear, get, turn · To what, where: lesson, yo string, cot, blue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 327 «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 string	det
8	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yo	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 yo	punct
10	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 string	compound
11	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 neck	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neck	nmod:poss
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 cot	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cot	det
17	cot	cot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turned	cc
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
21	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	obj
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 got	mark
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mum	nmod:poss
24	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	nsubj
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	advcl
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 got	advmod
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
29	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	lesson			tree rules
2	get	past	a baby	a yo string	the cot	round baby's neck	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer string=Stimulus
3	turn in a quote	past	u not said here	blue			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blue=Theme
4	get in a quote	past	baby's mum		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Strings are fine if they're short and the baby's asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fine	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 short	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 short	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 short	cop
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asleep	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 baby	det
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asleep	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 baby	case
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Strings	fine property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Strings = string	short property	tree rules
3	be		Strings not said here		tree rules

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

Keep cords and strings away from babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 strings	cc
4	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cords	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 babies	case
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	cords and strings		babies		away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cord=Beneficiary from baby=Eventuality

Option 3

Only thick ropes are dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 ropes	advmod
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ropes	amod
3	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dangerous	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Babies can untangle themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 untangle	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 untangle	aux
3	untangle	untangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 untangle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	untangle	can	Babies	Babies = baby					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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