Test 9 · A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents

Your toddler cousin is crawling near your Lego. What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toddler cousin, you · What happens: crawl, do · To what, where: Lego

This is test 9 of lesson 95 «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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

Sentence 1: Your toddler cousin is crawling near your Lego.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	compound
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crawling	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 crawling	aux
5	crawling	crawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 Lego	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Lego	nmod:poss
8	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crawling	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crawling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	present · progressive	Your toddler cousin			your Lego			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near lego=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.

Sentence 2: What should you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Give him a few of the small pieces to hold and keep him busy and quiet

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 few	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Give	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 pieces	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pieces	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pieces	amod
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 few	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hold	mark
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pieces	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 keep	cc
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hold	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 keep	obj
14	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keep	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 quiet	cc
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 busy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a few of the small pieces	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient few=Theme
2	hold	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	infinitive	you not said here	him = he		busy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Let him play with them, since they are toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 play	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 toys	punct
7	since	since	ADP	_	10 toys	case
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 toys	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 toys	cop
10	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he			tree rules
2	play	infinitive	him = he not said here			with them = they	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme
3	is	present	they		since toys		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pick up the small pieces so he cannot put them in his mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pieces	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pieces	amod
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pick	obj
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 put	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 put	advmod
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pick	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	the small pieces					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic
2	not put	can	he	pieces = piece		his mouth			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in mouth=Destination

Option 4

Leave them, because he will not touch them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 touch	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 touch	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 touch	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 touch	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 touch	advmod
8	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	not touch	future	he	them = they					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

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