Test 15 · Mistakes, asking for help and saying no

smashed the neighbour's window with my ball, gonna hide

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: smash · To what, where: window

This is test 15 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	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbour	det
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 window	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 neighbour	case
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smashed	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 ball	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ball	nmod:poss
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smashed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hide	punct
10	gonna	gonna	X	_	11 hide	compound
11	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ball	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past		the neighbour's window				with my ball and gonna hide	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent window=Patient with ball=Instrument

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

Run away until dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
3	until	until	ADP	_	4 dark	case
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	imperative	you not said here				until dark	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Own up and say sorry, hiding makes it worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Own	own	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Own	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Own	conj
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 makes	punct
7	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 makes	nsubj
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Own	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 makes	obj
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	own up	imperative	you not said here			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here		sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hide	gerund				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	present		it	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 3

Hide and blame the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 blame	cc
3	blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blame	infinitive	you not said here	the wind					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme

Option 4

Buy a new ball and forget it, nobody saw anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ball	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ball	amod
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buy	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 forget	cc
6	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Buy	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forget	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Buy	parataxis
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	10 saw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	a new ball		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	forget	infinitive	you not said here	ball		tree rules
3	see	past	nobody		anyway property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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