Test 8 · Sweets, change and a friend's toy
Teacher, cross: «Nobody gets stickers till the person who took them owns up.» What is the fair thing for the taker?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nobody, person, fair thing · What happens: get, take, own up, be · To what, where: stickers
This is test 8 of lesson 338 «Sweets, change and a friend's toy» 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: Teacher, cross: «Nobody gets stickers till the person who took them owns up.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cross | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| 3 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 gets | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 gets | punct |
| 6 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cross | acl:relcl |
| 8 | stickers | sticker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gets | obj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 owns | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owns | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 person | acl:relcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gets | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 owns | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present | Nobody | stickers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sticker=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | the person | stickers = sticker | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | own up in a quote | present | the person | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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 the fair thing for the taker?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 taker | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 taker | det |
| 8 | taker | taker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fair thing for the taker | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Hide them better next time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hide | obj |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 time | amod |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | them = they | time | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Blame the class helper for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 helper | det |
| 3 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helper | compound |
| 4 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blame | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Blame | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | imperative | you not said here | the class helper | for helper | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent helper=Theme for it=Attribute |
Option 3
Wait for someone else to own up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 someone | case |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Wait | obl |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 someone | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 own | mark |
| 6 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 own | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | for someone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | own up | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Own up and put them back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Own | own | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Own | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 put | cc |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Own | conj |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | imperative | you not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | put back | infinitive | you not said here | them = they | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
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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