Test 10 · ★★★ · Breaking things and hiding the pieces

Which is TRUE about hiding damage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: damage

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 342 «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 hiding	mark
5	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 TRUE	advcl
6	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hiding	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	hide	gerund		damage					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It often makes the damage worse and the people sadder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 damage	det
5	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 people	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	conj
10	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the damage				bad, often, sad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material damage=Product

Option 2

Things hidden are never found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	nsubj:pass
2	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Things	acl
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux:pass
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle		Things not said here					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not find	present · passive		Things					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

It is fine if the thing was cheap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 cheap	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cheap	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cheap	cop
8	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the thing					cheap property	tree rules

Option 4

It always keeps you out of trouble if you hide it well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 keeps	advmod
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 hide	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hide	nsubj
10	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keeps	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hide	obj
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	you		trouble		always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme out trouble=Location
2	hide a condition, not said to happen	present	you	trouble				well property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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