Test 18 · Climbing trees and playgrounds

someone said a kid got hanged on the slide by his hoodie string, like for real, at our park

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, hoodie string · What happens: say, hange · To what, where: kid, slide · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 of lesson 4 «Climbing trees and playgrounds» 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kid	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hanged	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hanged	aux:pass
6	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 slide	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 slide	det
9	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hanged	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 string	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 string	nmod:poss
12	hoodie	hoodie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 string	amod
13	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hanged	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 real	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 real	case
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 real	case
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hanged	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 park	punct
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 park	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 park	nmod:poss
21	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	someone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hange	past · passive	kid's hoodie string	a kid		the slide			tree rules

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 means slides are only safe for children with no hoodies at all

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	slides	slide	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 safe	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 safe	advmod
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 children	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 safe	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 hoodies	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 hoodies	det
11	hoodies	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 children	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 safe	obl

#	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
2	is	present	slides			all		for children with no hoodies; safe property	tree rules

Option 2

It is surely made up, so drawstrings are always safe

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	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 safe	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 safe	advmod
8	drawstrings	drawstring	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 safe	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 safe	cop
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 safe	advmod
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present · passive		It				surely property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	is	present	drawstrings					always, safe property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Whether or not it was our park, drawstrings really can catch, so take them off or tuck them in

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	7 park	mark
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	1 Whether	fixed
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Whether	fixed
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 park	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 park	cop
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 park	nmod:poss
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catch	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 park	punct
9	drawstrings	drawstring	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 catch	nsubj
10	really	really	ADV	_	12 catch	advmod
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 catch	aux
12	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 catch	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	15 take	compound:prt
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 tuck	cc
19	tuck	tuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 catch	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tuck	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	19 tuck	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	it	our park	tree rules
2	catch	can	drawstrings		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	take off	infinitive	drawstrings not said here	drawstrings = drawstring	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	tuck in	infinitive	drawstrings not said here	drawstrings = drawstring	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

It proves you should wear your bike helmet on the slide

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wear	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wear	aux
5	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 proves	ccomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 helmet	nmod:poss
7	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helmet	compound
8	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 slide	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 slide	det
11	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wear	should	you	your bike helmet		the slide			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme

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