Test 12 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

lil bro shoved a bead up his nose 😬

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lil bro · What happens: shove up · To what, where: bead

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 77 «Hair, nails and ears» 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	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bro	amod
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoved	nsubj
3	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bead	det
5	bead	bead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoved	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 shoved	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nose	nmod:poss
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoved	obj
9	😬	😬	PUNCT	_	3 shoved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove up	past	lil bro	a bead					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bead=Destination nose=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

Wait and it will come out alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 come	cc
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come out	future	it					alone, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Poke it out with a pencil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Poke	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 pencil	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pencil	det
6	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke out	imperative	you not said here	it				with a pencil	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with pencil=Instrument

Option 3

Tell him to sniff it up hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sniff	mark
4	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sniff	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 sniff	compound:prt
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 sniff	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sniff up not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult at once

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	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Tell	obl

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

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