Test 14 · ★ · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…

kids say the boy who took ages to move at chess is "slow and dumb". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, boy · What happens: say, take, move, be, pass on · To what, where: ages, chess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	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 slow	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 move	mark
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 chess	case
11	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 move	obl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 slow	cop
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 slow	punct
14	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dumb	cc
16	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 slow	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 slow	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
19	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pass	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	19 pass	compound:prt
22	?	?	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	take	past	the boy	ages			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme
3	move	to-infinitive	the boy not said here		chess		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at chess=Trajectory
4	is in a quote	present	the boy			slow property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		the boy not said here				tree rules
6	pass on	infinitive		chess			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 · ✓ the right answer

No, that's unkind; just use a timer if needed

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	_	8 use	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 use	advmod
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 unkind	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 timer	det
10	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	obj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 needed	mark
12	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 use	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	that		unkind property	tree rules
2	use	infinitive		a timer		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timer=Patient
3	need a condition, not said to happen	participle				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

Yes, and refuse to play him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 refuse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 refuse	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 refuse	cc
4	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 play	mark
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refuse	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	imperative	you not said here						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not play	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Yes, tell everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he's slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					slow 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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