Test 14 · Trusted adults and asking for help

hurt my ankle bad but i'll get in trouble if i tell

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, i · What happens: hurt, get, tell · To what, where: ankle, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 of lesson 56 «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ankle	nmod:poss
3	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hurt	obj
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 hurt	xcomp
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 get	cc
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 hurt	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 trouble	case
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 tell	mark
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hurt	imperative	you not said here	my ankle		bad property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ankle=Patient
2	get	future	i		trouble		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	i				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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

Wait a month and see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 month	det
3	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 see	cc
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				month		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Hide it and keep walking on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 keep	cc
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
5	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
3	walk	gerund	you not said here		it	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult anyway, an injury needs care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 needs	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 injury	det
7	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needs	nsubj
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
9	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult			anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	need	present	a injury	care					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme

Option 4

Tell only your little brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 brother	advmod
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		your little brother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient

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