Test 9 · ★ · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…
baby wants my yo-yo
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby · What happens: want · To what, where: yo yo
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 yo | nmod:poss |
| 4 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yo | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 yo | punct |
| 6 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | baby | my yo yo | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot yo=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
Let him have it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | infinitive | him = he not said here | it | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
Let him if you watch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 watch | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 watch | nsubj |
| 5 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Keep it away; the string can strangle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 strangle | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 string | det |
| 6 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strangle | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 strangle | aux |
| 8 | strangle | strangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Keep | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep away | imperative | you not said here | it | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | strangle | can | the string | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Cut the string shorter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 string | det |
| 3 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cut | obj |
| 4 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Cut | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | imperative | you not said here | the string | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset string=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts/t9/