Test 10 · ★★ · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…

lets scare my brother while he's on the stairs

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: let, scare, be · To what, where: brother, stairs

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 334 «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 lets	xcomp
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scare	obj
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 stairs	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stairs	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stairs	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stairs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stairs	det
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 lets	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	present				tree rules
2	scare	infinitive		my brother		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brother=Experiencer
3	is	present	he		the stairs	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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Never; he could fall and get hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fall	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fall	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	aux
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
7	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 hurt	aux:pass
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall	could	he						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hurt	infinitive · passive	he not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Do it if he's holding the rail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 holding	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 holding	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 holding	aux
6	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Do	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rail	det
8	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	hold a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	he	the rail					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Theme

Option 3

Do it, it's funny, he'll laugh after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 funny	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 funny	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	cop
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Do	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laugh	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laugh	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 laugh	aux
10	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 funny	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	10 laugh	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is	present	it		funny property	tree rules
3	laugh after	future	he			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Do it at the bottom step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 step	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 step	det
5	bottom	bottom	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 step	amod
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it				at the bottom step	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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