Test 15 · ★ · Your body and how you look

kids keep teasing me bout my ears, gonna keep it quiet

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: keep, tease · To what, where: me, it

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 88 «Your body and how you look» 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 teasing	obj
5	bout	bout	ADP	_	7 ears	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ears	nmod:poss
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teasing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keep	punct
9	gonna	gonna	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 keep	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obj
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	kids			tree rules
2	tease	gerund	kids not said here	me	bout my ears	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	keep	infinitive	kids not said here	it	quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «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

Hide from everyone at lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 everyone	case
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Hide	nmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 lunch	case
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everyone	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Keep quiet, it'll stop by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stop	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stop	future	it					by itself = it	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a trusted adult, teasing can be stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 teasing	punct
6	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 stopped	nsubj:pass
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stopped	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 stopped	aux:pass
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a trusted adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	trust	participle			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tease	gerund			vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stop	can · passive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

Tease them back meaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tease	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Tease	advmod
4	meaner	meaner	ADV	_	1 Tease	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease back	imperative	you not said here	them = they				meaner property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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