Test 19 · ★ · Time, routines and sleep

Ben's always late and people say his family are lazy, pass it on

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: say, be, pass on · To what, where: family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 39 «Time, routines and sleep» 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	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 late	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ben	case
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 lazy	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 late	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 family	nmod:poss
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lazy	cop
11	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pass	punct
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lazy	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pass	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	13 pass	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people	Ben's family		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent family=Topic
2	is	present			late, lazy property	tree rules
3	pass on	infinitive		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, so he gets up earlier

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 gets	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 gets	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 gets	compound:prt
9	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 gets	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	get up	present	he					early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Pass it on, and add his mum is late 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 add	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 add	cc
6	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 late	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 late	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 late	cop
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pass	advcl
11	too	too	ADV	_	10 late	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	add speech: assert	infinitive	his mum not said here			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	his mum		late property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Do not pass it on; you do not know why, and it is unkind

The tree, 14 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	_	10 know	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pass	conj
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 know	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unkind	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 unkind	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 unkind	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 unkind	cop
16	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	not know	present · do-support	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	it		unkind property	tree rules

Option 4

Pass it on, since being late proves 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	_	8 proves	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 proves	mark
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 proves	cop
7	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 proves	advmod
8	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 proves	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	is	gerund						late, prove property	tree rules

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