Test 19 · Taking care of your things and money

everyone's saying Tyler's family is poor cos his shoes are old, pass it on

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, family · What happens: say, be, pass on · To what, where: family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 of lesson 37 «Taking care of your things and money» 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	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 saying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 family	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Tyler	case
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poor	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poor	cop
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saying	ccomp
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 shoes	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoes	nmod:poss
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 old	obl
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 old	cop
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 poor	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pass	punct
15	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pass	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	15 pass	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Tyler's family		poor property	tree rules
3	is	present			cos Tyler's shoes; old property	tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive	everyone not said here	family		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Pass it on, because shoes prove it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 prove	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 prove	mark
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 prove	nsubj
7	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 prove	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	prove	present	shoes	it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Pass it on, so people give him money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 give	advmod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	give	present	people	money	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme

Option 3

Pass it on, and make fun of his bag too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 make	cc
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bag	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bag	nmod:poss
10	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fun	nmod
11	too	too	ADV	_	6 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	make	infinitive	you not said here	fun of his bag					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Do not pass it on; it is unkind, and old shoes cared for can last a long time

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pass	advmod
3	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pass	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 pass	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 unkind	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unkind	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 unkind	cop
9	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pass	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cared	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cared	cc
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shoes	amod
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cared	nsubj
14	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unkind	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 last	case
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 last	aux
17	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cared	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 last	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not pass on	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	it			unkind property	tree rules
3	care	past	old shoes				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	last	can	old shoes not said here		time		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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