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Test 6 · ★ · The older kid's «trade»

Big brother: «Do my chores, I'll give you my PS4.» What would stop the trick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Big brother · What happens: do, give, stop · To what, where: chores, PS4, you, trick

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 445 «The older kid's «trade»» 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: «Do my chores, I'll give you my PS4.»

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	11 give	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Do	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Do	punct
5	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 brother	acl:relcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chores	nmod:poss
7	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brother	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 PS4	nmod:poss
14	PS4	PS4	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	infinitive	Big brother not said here	my chores					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality
2	give in a quote	future	Big brother	my PS4	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ps4=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 would stop the trick?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 stop	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trick	det
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would		the trick					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Asking Dad to do the chores

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chores	det
6	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			Dad				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive		the chores					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality

Option 2

Doing the chores at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chores	det
3	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Doing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Doing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		the chores			night		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality

Option 3

Doing the chores twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chores	det
3	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Doing	obj
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Doing	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Doing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		the chores				fast, twice property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Saying back «the whole console, yes?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Saying	advmod
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 console	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 console	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 console	amod
6	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 yes	punct
8	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	1 Saying	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 yes	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 yes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say back speech: assert	gerund		the whole console					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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