Test 8 · ★ · Solving disagreements calmly

Why should you ask an adult when a quarrel turns into pushing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, quarrel · What happens: ask, turn, push · To what, where: adult

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 54 «Solving disagreements calmly» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ask	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 turns	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 quarrel	det
9	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	nsubj
10	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	advcl
11	into	into	SCONJ	_	12 pushing	mark
12	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 turns	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	should	you	a adult	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	turn	present	a quarrel		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	push	gerund			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

Someone could get hurt and needs help stopping it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
3	get	get	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux:pass
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 help	cc
6	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 help	nsubj
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	conj
8	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 help	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stopping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hurt	could · passive		Someone	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	help	present	needs		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	stop	gerund	needs not said here	it	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

Option 2

Because the pushing child will be punished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 punished	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 punished	nsubj:pass
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 punished	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 punished	aux:pass
7	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund							vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	punish	future · passive		the pushing child					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Because children can never solve any quarrels on their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 solve	mark
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 solve	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 solve	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 solve	advmod
5	solve	solve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 quarrels	det
7	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 solve	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 solve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not solve	can	children	any quarrels		children's own			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Topic

Option 4

Because adults enjoy sorting out fights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 enjoy	mark
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 enjoy	nsubj
3	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sorting	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 enjoy	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 sorting	compound:prt
6	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sorting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	present	adults						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sort out	gerund	adults not said here	fights					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/t8/