Test 13 · ★ · Handling anger

lost the game AGAIN, gonna chuck my controller

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: lose, chuck · To what, where: game, controller

This is test 13 · ★ 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	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lost	obj
4	AGAIN	again	ADV	_	1 lost	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chuck	punct
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 chuck	dep
7	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 lost	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 controller	nmod:poss
9	controller	controller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past		the game			again		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
2	chuck	infinitive		my controller					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent controller=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 · ✓ the right answer

Stop, step away and breathe, you might break it or hurt someone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 step	punct
3	step	step	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 step	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 breathe	cc
6	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 break	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 break	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 break	aux
10	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stop	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 break	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 hurt	cc
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 break	conj
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	step away	infinitive	you not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	breathe	infinitive	you not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	break	might	you	it		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
5	hurt	infinitive	you not said here	someone		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient

Option 2

Shout at the person who won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 person	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 won	nsubj
6	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 person	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here					at the person	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	win	past	the person						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Break something cheaper instead

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	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 something	amod
4	instead	instead	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				instead property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Throw it, it lets anger out safely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lets	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lets	nsubj
5	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Throw	advcl
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lets	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 lets	compound:prt
8	safely	safely	ADV	_	5 lets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	it					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	let out	present	it	anger				safely property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme

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