Test 10 · Mistakes, asking for help and saying no

smashed mums vase playing ball, nobody saw 😬

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: vase, smashed mums · What happens: play, see · To what, where: ball

This is test 10 of lesson 99 «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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	smashed	smashed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mums	amod
2	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	nsubj
3	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mums	conj
4	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 vase	acl
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mums	punct
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	😬	😬	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	vase not said here	ball					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	see	past	smashed mums and vase						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Say the cat knocked it over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knocked	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	4 knocked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	the cat not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	knock over	past	the cat	it					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult straight away and say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Hide the pieces under the sofa n hope nobody looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pieces	det
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hope	nsubj
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 n	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 n	det
6	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 n	compound
7	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	nmod
8	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	parataxis
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hope	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hope	present	the pieces under the sofa n	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	look	present	nobody	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Glue it and say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glue	glue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Glue	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Glue	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	imperative	you not said here	it					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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