Test 18 · Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

heard Ollie smashed his Lego model to bits cos it fell apart, like 2000 pieces, n his mum had to hoover it all up

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie, model, mum · What happens: hear, smash, fall apart, have, hoover, model · To what, where: Lego model, bits, model

This is test 18 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 smashed	nsubj
3	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 model	nmod:poss
5	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 model	compound
6	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smashed	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 bits	case
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smashed	obl
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 fell	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smashed	advcl
12	apart	apart	ADV	_	11 fell	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pieces	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 pieces	case
15	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 pieces	nummod
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	n	and	CCONJ	Abbr=Yes	21 had	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mum	nmod:poss
20	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hoover	mark
23	hoover	hoover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hoover	obj
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 up	advmod
26	up	up	ADV	_	23 hoover	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	smash	past	Ollie	Ollie's Lego model	bits		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent model=Theme to bit=Destination
3	fall apart	past	model			like 2000 pieces; apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	have	past	Ollie's mum				tree rules
5	hoover	to-infinitive	Ollie's mum not said here	model			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial_Location
6	model		Ollie				nom model «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

Frustration always ends in smashing things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frustration	frustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 ends	advmod
3	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	5 smashing	mark
5	smashing	smash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ends	advcl
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smashing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	Frustration					always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	smash	gerund	Frustration not said here	things					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Builders never have to try more than once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 try	mark
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 try	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 more	fixed
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 try	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present	Builders						tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive	Builders not said here	more				once property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Frustration is better handled with a break and asking for help; 2000 pieces is probably exaggerated

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frustration	frustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handled	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 handled	aux:pass
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 handled	nsubj:pass
4	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 exaggerated	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 break	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 break	det
7	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asking	cc
9	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 break	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 help	case
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asking	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 handled	punct
13	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 pieces	nummod
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 handled	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 exaggerated	aux:pass
16	probably	probably	ADV	_	17 exaggerated	advmod
17	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	handle	present · passive	Frustration	with a break	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund		for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	exaggerate	present · passive		probably property	tree rules

Option 4

Smashing it was the right thing to do, because a broken model is useless anyway

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smashing	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 thing	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Smashing	obj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 useless	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 useless	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 model	det
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 model	amod
13	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 useless	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 useless	cop
15	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	conj
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	15 useless	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smash	gerund		it		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	past	Smashing	the right thing		tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	is	present	a broken model		anyway, useless property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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