Test 6 · Staying up, screens and coming home late
Older kids: «climb to the top, scaredy cat». What is the wise answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wise answer · What happens: climb, be · To what, where: top
This is test 6 of lesson 348 «Staying up, screens and coming home late» 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: Older kids: «climb to the top, scaredy cat».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 kids | amod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 climb | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 climb | punct |
| 5 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 kids | appos |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climb | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cat | punct |
| 10 | scaredy | scaredy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cat | amod |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 climb | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kids | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb in a quote | infinitive | the top and scaredy cat | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination |
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 wise answer?
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 answer | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wise answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Climb when they leave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 leave | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Climb | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | present | they | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Climb if they hold the bottom of the trunk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 hold | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hold | nsubj |
| 4 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Climb | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottom | det |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 trunk | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trunk | det |
| 9 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bottom | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold a condition, not said to happen | present | they | the bottom of the trunk | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme |
Option 3
Climb halfway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 1 Climb | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | imperative | you not said here | halfway property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
«No thanks» — and stay on the small tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 thanks | det |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stay | cc |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanks | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | infinitive | the small tree | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location |
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