Test 14 · Boredom, excitement and pride

soooo bored, gonna climb on the shed roof

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: climb · To what, where: shed roof

This is test 14 of lesson 93 «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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	soooo	soooo	ADV	_	2 bored	advmod
2	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 climb	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bored	punct
4	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 climb	dep
5	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 roof	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
8	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roof	compound
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here			the shed roof			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Trajectory

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

Climb it, boredom is way worse than a broken arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Climb	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
4	boredom	boredom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obl
7	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 way	acl:relcl
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 arm	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 arm	det
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 arm	amod
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here	it	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
2	is a	present	boredom	way	tree rules
3	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Only climb if no one sees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 climb	advmod
2	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 sees	mark
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sees	nsubj
6	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 climb	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see a condition, not said to happen	present	no one						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Find something safe to do, falls from roofs break bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Find	obj
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 something	amod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 safe	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 falls	punct
7	falls	falls	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Find	parataxis
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	10 break	mark
9	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 break	nsubj
10	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 falls	advcl
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	something	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive	something not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	falls	infinitive			tree rules
4	break	present	roofs	bones	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient

Option 4

Jump off for extra fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Jump	compound:prt
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 fun	case
4	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fun	amod
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	imperative	you not said here					for extra fun	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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