Test 10 · ★★★ · Cold parents: always on the phone

Bertie's prize, Avery's gold star, Sid's goal: what's one thing all three kids could do this week?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prize, three kids · What happens: be, do · To what, where: one thing

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 495 «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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	Bertie	Bertie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 prize	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Bertie	case
3	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 star	punct
5	Avery	Avery	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 star	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Avery	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 star	compound
8	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prize	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 goal	punct
10	Sid	Sid	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 goal	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Sid	case
12	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prize	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 thing	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	cop
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 thing	nummod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prize	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 kids	det
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 kids	nummod
20	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 do	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thing	acl:relcl
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 week	det
24	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obl:unmarked
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 prize	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bertie's prize and Avery's gold star and Sid's goal and one thing	one thing					tree rules
2	do	could	all three kids	one thing not said here			week		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Share it with another grown-up who'll notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Share	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 grown	case
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 grown	obj
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Share	obj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 notice	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 notice	aux
10	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Share	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here	it	tree rules
2	grow up	participle		another	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location another=Theme
3	notice	future			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Stop trying, since nobody at home notices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 notices	punct
4	since	since	ADP	_	8 notices	case
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 notices	compound
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nobody	nmod
8	notices	notice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	try	gerund	you not said here				since nobody notices		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Win something bigger so parents look up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Win	obj
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 something	amod
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 look	advmod
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Win	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 look	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	imperative	you not said here	something					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
2	look up	present	parents						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Throw their parents' phones in the bin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 parents	nmod:poss
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 phones	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 parents	case
5	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bin	det
8	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	their parents's phones		the bin			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent phone=Theme in bin=Destination

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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