Test 11 · ★★★ · Snooping on phones, diaries and letters

Why might a list of things to do on rainy days help Ruby stop snooping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: list, Ruby · What happens: do, help, stop, snoop, list · To what, where: things

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 357 «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 list	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 list	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 list	det
4	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 help	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 things	case
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 list	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 things	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
12	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stop	nsubj
14	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 help	xcomp
15	snooping	snoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 stop	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive	a list of things not said here		day	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help	present	a list of things			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	stop	infinitive	Ruby			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	snoop	gerund	Ruby not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	list			things		nom list «communication transitive»: of=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

It hides the tablet from her so she can never find it

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	2 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tablet	det
4	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hides	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 find	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 find	advmod
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hides	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	It	the tablet				from her = she	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tablet=Patient from she=Beneficiary
2	not find	can	she	tablet					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

It makes her forget the codes

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 codes	det
6	codes	code	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	her = she					tree rules
2	forget	infinitive	her = she not said here	the codes					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It gives her something to do when the temptation comes

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	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	iobj
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 gives	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 something	acl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 comes	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 temptation	det
9	temptation	temptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 comes	nsubj
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gives	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	present	It	something	her = she	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient something=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive		something not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	the temptation			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It means Mum checks on her

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 checks	nsubj
4	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 checks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	check	present	Mum	her = she					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme

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