Test 16 · Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

little sis keeps taking my stuff, gonna hit her

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little sis, gonna · What happens: keep, take, hit · To what, where: stuff, sis

This is test 16 of lesson 94 «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sis	amod
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stuff	nmod:poss
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct
8	gonna	gonna	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 keeps	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present	little sis		tree rules
2	take	gerund	little sis not said here	my stuff	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme
3	hit	past	gonna	sis	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice

Take all her toys away and hide them from her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 toys	det:predet
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 toys	nmod:poss
4	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hide	cc
7	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hide	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	her toys				away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme
2	hide	present	you not said here	toys = toy					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Don't hit her, tell a parent and keep your stuff safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 hit	advmod
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hit	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 parent	det
8	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 keep	cc
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 stuff	nmod:poss
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj
13	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not hit	imperative · do-support	you not said here	her = she			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a parent		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
3	keep	infinitive	you not said here	your stuff		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

Option 3

Hit her so she learns to leave my stuff alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 learns	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learns	nsubj
5	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hit	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leave	mark
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learns	xcomp
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stuff	nmod:poss
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	her = she		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
2	learn	present	she			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave	to-infinitive	she not said here	my stuff	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

Option 4

Lock her in her room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lock	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 room	nmod:poss
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lock	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	imperative	you not said here	her = she		her room			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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