Test 1 · ★★ · Big kids, little kids and the truth at home
Big brother: «Mum said you gotta give me your sweets, bruv». What's the smart move for the little one?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, smart move · What happens: say, give, be · To what, where: you, sweets, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 433 «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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: Big brother: «Mum said you gotta give me your sweets, bruv».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brother | amod |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 brother | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brother | parataxis |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | gotta | gotta | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sweets | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bruv | punct |
| 14 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sweets | conj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brother | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mum | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | your sweets and bruv | Mum | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sweet=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.
Sentence 2: What's the smart move for the little one?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 move | det |
| 4 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 move | amod |
| 5 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the smart move for the little one | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Cry until he goes away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 4 goes | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cry | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | imperative | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go away | present | he | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Go and ask Mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ask | cc |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | Mum | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Hide them in the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hide | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | them = they | the garden | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in garden=Location |
Option 4
Hand them over at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hand | obj |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 1 Hand | compound:prt |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Hand | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand over | imperative | you not said here | them = they | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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