Test 15 · ★ · Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues…

kids say the boy who still uses a booster seat "is a baby". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, boy · What happens: say, use, be, pass on · To what, where: booster seat, baby, seat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 331 «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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 baby	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 uses	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 uses	advmod
7	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 seat	det
9	booster	booster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seat	compound
10	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 uses	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 baby	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 baby	det
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	ccomp
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 baby	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	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	use	present	the boy	a booster seat	still	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	the boy	a baby		tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive		seat		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, it's true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, boosters place the belt on strong bones; that's unkind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 place	punct
3	boosters	booster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 place	compound
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 belt	det
6	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 place	appos
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bones	case
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bones	amod
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 place	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 unkind	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 unkind	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 unkind	cop
13	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 place	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and laugh at him

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	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present						at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, he's a baby, big kids don't sit on boosters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 baby	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 baby	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 baby	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kids	amod
9	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sit	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sit	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 sit	advmod
12	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 baby	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 boosters	case
14	boosters	booster	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a baby					tree rules
2	not sit	present · do-support	big kids			boosters			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on booster=Location

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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