Test 11 · ★ · Handling anger

i broke his lego cos i was angry, now what

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: i · What happens: break, be · To what, where: lego

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 89 «Handling anger» 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	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lego	nmod:poss
4	lego	lego	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 angry	mark
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 angry	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 angry	cop
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 broke	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 what	advmod
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 broke	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	i	his lego					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lego=Patient
2	is	past	i					angry 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

Break something of his too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Break	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 his	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 something	nmod:poss
5	too	too	ADV	_	1 Break	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	imperative	you not said here	something					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient

Option 2

Hide it and say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult and think how to make it right

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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 think	cc
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 make	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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
2	think speech: other	infinitive	you not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive		adult		right property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 4

Say he broke it himself when he was playing with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broke	obj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 broke	obl:unmarked
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 playing	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 playing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 playing	aux
9	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Say	parataxis
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	past	he	it	himself = he obl:unmarked	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
3	play	past · progressive	he		with it	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme

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