Test 17 · ★★ · Staying safe and kind online

heard a kid met someone off a game who said he was 11 but turned out to be a grown man, they reckon the police came

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, game, they, police · What happens: hear, meet, say, be, turn out, grow · To what, where: someone, 11, grown man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 59 «Staying safe and kind online» 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 met	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 game	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 game	det
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 game	acl:relcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 11	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 11	cop
13	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 said	ccomp
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 turned	cc
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 turned	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	21 man	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 man	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reckon	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reckon	nsubj
24	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 met	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 police	det
26	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 reckon	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	a kid not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	meet	past	a kid	someone	off a game	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	a game			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	kid	11		tree rules
5	turn out	past	a game not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	to-infinitive	a game not said here	a grown man		tree rules
8	reckon	present	they			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	come	past	the police			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It proves games are only for adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 adults	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 adults	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 adults	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 adults	case
7	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proves	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	games					for adults	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Either way, people online can pretend, so never meet online-only friends

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pretend	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 people	punct
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 way	conj
5	online	online	ADV	_	4 people	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pretend	aux
7	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meet	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 meet	advmod
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 meet	advmod
11	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pretend	conj
12	online	online	ADV	_	11 meet	advmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 online	punct
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 friends	advmod
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 meet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	can	either way and people						tree rules
2	not meet	present	either way and people not said here	friends				online property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is gossip, so online friends are always safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gossip	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gossip	cop
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 safe	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	10 safe	advmod
6	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friends	amod
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 safe	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 safe	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 safe	advmod
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gossip	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	gossip					tree rules
2	is	present	online friends	gossip not said here				always, safe property	tree rules

Option 4

It means you can meet people if they send a photo of themselves first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 meet	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 meet	aux
5	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meet	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 send	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 send	nsubj
9	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 meet	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 photo	det
11	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 send	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 photo	nmod
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	meet	can	you	people		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent
3	send a condition, not said to happen	present	people	a photo of people	first property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme

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