Test 9 · Trusted adults and asking for help

Who can help a child in danger in the street?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: help · To what, where: child, danger

This is test 9 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 help	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 help	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 danger	case
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 help	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 street	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 street	det
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 danger	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can			a child	danger in the street			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary

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

A police officer, a firefighter or a paramedic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 officer	det
2	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 officer	compound
3	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 firefighter	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 firefighter	det
6	firefighter	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 officer	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 paramedic	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 paramedic	det
9	paramedic	paramedic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 officer	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Only someone the child has met before at least once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 someone	advmod
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 met	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 met	aux
6	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 once	mark
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 least	case
9	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 once	obl
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present · perfect	someone						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nobody, the child must cope alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 cope	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cope	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cope	aux
6	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 cope	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cope	must	Nobody					alone property	vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only the child's own parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 parents	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parents	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 child	case
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parents	amod
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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