Test 19 · ★ · Skating and sports safety

Josh threw up after the cross country and everyone's calling him Puke Boy, it's so funny

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh, everyone, country · What happens: throw up, call, be · To what, where: Josh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 6 «Skating and sports safety» 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	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 country	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 country	compound
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 calling	cc
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 calling	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 calling	aux
11	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 threw	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 calling	obj
13	Puke	Puke	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Boy	compound
14	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 calling	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 funny	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 funny	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 funny	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 funny	advmod
19	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 threw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw up	past	Josh		after the cross country		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present · progressive	everyone	Josh			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme boy=Result
3	is	present	country			funny property	tree rules

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

Spread it, since it is true that he was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 true	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 true	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Spread	parataxis
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 sick	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sick	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sick	cop
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 true	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is	present	it		true property	tree rules
3	is	past	he		sick property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Do not spread the nickname; it is unkind and he may have been unwell

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nickname	det
5	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 unkind	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unkind	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 unkind	cop
9	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spread	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 unwell	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 unwell	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 unwell	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 unwell	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 unwell	cop
15	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 unkind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the nickname		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nickname=Theme
2	is	present	nickname		unkind property	tree rules
3	is	may · perfect	he		unwell property	tree rules

Option 3

Spread it, because nicknames help people toughen up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 help	mark
5	nicknames	nickname	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 help	obj
8	toughen	toughen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 toughen	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	help	present	nicknames	people	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	toughen up	infinitive	people not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Spread it, but only in the group chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chat	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 chat	cc
5	only	only	ADV	_	9 chat	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 chat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chat	det
8	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chat	compound
9	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it		the group chat			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in chat=Destination

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