Your older cousin says "y'all better put on your coats, it's wicked cold." ("Wicked" in New England means very.) What should you do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: older cousin, cousin, Wicked, you · What happens: say, put, be, mean, do · To what, where: coats, wicked cold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 of lesson 26 «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language 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 older cousin says "y'all better put on your coats, it's wicked cold."
vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination
3
is ain a quote
present
cousin
wicked cold
tree rules
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.
vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Tidy your coats away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Tidy
tidy
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
your
your
PRON
Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs
3 coats
nmod:poss
3
coats
coat
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Tidy
obj
4
away
away
ADV
_
1 Tidy
advmod
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
tidy away
imperative
you not said here
your coats
away property
tree rules
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Wear your coats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Wear
wear
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
your
your
PRON
Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs
3 coats
nmod:poss
3
coats
coat
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Wear
obj
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
wear
imperative
you not said here
your coats
vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
Option 3
Throw your coats out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Throw
throw
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
your
your
PRON
Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs
3 coats
nmod:poss
3
coats
coat
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Throw
obj
4
out
out
ADV
_
1 Throw
advmod
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
throw out
imperative
you not said here
your coats
out property
vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
Option 4
Delay putting on coats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Delay
delay
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
2
putting
put
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
1 Delay
acl
3
on
on
ADP
_
2 putting
compound:prt
4
coats
coat
NOUN
Number=Plur
2 putting
obj
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
put on
gerund
Delay not said here
coats
vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent coat=Goal
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.