Test 7 · ★ · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…
Your four-year-old cousin is playing doctor and tells you that you are the patient. What is best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old cousin, you · What happens: play, tell, be · To what, where: doctor, you, patient · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Your four-year-old cousin is playing doctor and tells you that you are the patient.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 year | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 four | punct |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cousin | amod |
| 7 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 playing | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 playing | aux |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 playing | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tells | cc |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 playing | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tells | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 patient | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 patient | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 patient | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 patient | det |
| 18 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 playing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · progressive | Your old cousin | doctor | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Your old cousin not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | the patient | 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.
Sentence 2: What is best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 best | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 best | cop |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Take the kit and be the doctor yourself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kit | det |
| 3 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 doctor | cc |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 doctor | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 doctor | det |
| 7 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | conj |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the kit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument kit=Theme yourself=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | you not said here | the doctor | tree rules |
Option 2
Explain that real doctors do it differently
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doctors | amod |
| 4 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Explain | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | present | real doctors | it | differently property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Be the patient and follow her story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 patient | det |
| 3 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Be | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 follow | cc |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Be | conj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | infinitive | the patient | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow | infinitive | the patient not said here | patient's story | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
Option 4
Say the game is silly and go away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 silly | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 silly | cop |
| 5 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 silly | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the game | silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go away | infinitive | the game not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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