Test 19 · ★ · Facing fears

heard Noah wet himself in the haunted house at the fair, can i tell the class

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Noah, i · What happens: hear, wet, haunt, tell · To what, where: Noah, haunted house, class · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 90 «Facing fears» 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wet	nsubj
3	wet	wet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	ccomp
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 wet	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wet	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 fair	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fair	det
11	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
14	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 heard	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 class	det
17	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	wet	past	Noah	Noah	the haunted house at the fair	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	haunt	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	can	i	the class		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient

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

Yes, if you change his name a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 change	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 change	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 change	nsubj
5	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	you	his name				a bit obl:unmarked	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, do not spread it; being scared is normal and it would embarrass him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 spread	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 spread	advmod
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spread	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 spread	punct
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 scared	cop
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 normal	csubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 normal	cop
11	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spread	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 embarrass	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 embarrass	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 embarrass	aux
15	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spread	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 embarrass	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is	gerund			scared property	tree rules
3	is	present			normal property	tree rules
4	embarrass	would	it	him = he		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 3

Yes, it is a funny story everyone should hear, and he will laugh about it too

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 story	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 story	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 story	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 hear	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 story	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laugh	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laugh	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laugh	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 laugh	aux
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 story	parataxis
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laugh	obl
18	too	too	ADV	_	15 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a funny story		tree rules
2	hear	should	everyone	a funny story not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	laugh	future	he		about story	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, but only to the people who were not there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 people	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 people	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 people	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 there	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 there	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the people					there property	tree rules

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