Test 19 · ★★ · Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet

someone says Kai's tortoise died cos his family is stupid, pass it on

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, tortoise, family · What happens: say, die, be, pass on · To what, where: family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ of lesson 64 «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tortoise	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Kai	case
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 stupid	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 family	nmod:poss
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stupid	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stupid	cop
11	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 died	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pass	punct
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pass	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	13 pass	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	someone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	past	Kai's tortoise			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	present	tortoise's family		stupid property	tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive	someone not said here	family		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

Pass it on, and add that it starved because nobody ever remembered to feed it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 add	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 add	cc
6	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 starved	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 starved	nsubj
9	starved	starve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 add	advcl
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 remembered	mark
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 remembered	nsubj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 remembered	advmod
13	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 starved	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 feed	mark
15	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 remembered	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	add speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	starve	past	it			tree rules
4	remember	participle	nobody		ever	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	feed	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	it		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Do not pass it on; it is cruel and you do not know what happened

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pass	advmod
3	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cruel	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pass	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 pass	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 pass	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cruel	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cruel	cop
9	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 know	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cruel	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happened	nsubj
16	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not pass on	infinitive · do-support		it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	it		cruel property	tree rules
3	not know	present · do-support	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen	past				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Pass it on, so they learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 learn	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 learn	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 learn	nsubj
7	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	learn	present	they						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Pass it on, because tortoises live forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 live	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 live	mark
6	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	parataxis
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	live	present	tortoises					forever property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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