Test 8 · Taking without paying: the consequences
A cartoon shows a cheeky kid grabbing sweets and running off, with no one caring. What's wrong with that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, cheeky kid · What happens: show, grab, run off, be · To what, where: cheeky kid, sweets
This is test 8 of lesson 15 «Taking without paying: the consequences» of the money 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: A cartoon shows a cheeky kid grabbing sweets and running off, with no one caring.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kid | det |
| 5 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kid | amod |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 7 | grabbing | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kid | acl |
| 8 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grabbing | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 running | cc |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 grabbing | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 running | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 caring | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 caring | case |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 caring | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caring | compound |
| 16 | caring | caring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a cheeky kid | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | grab | gerund | a cheeky kid not said here | sweets | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run off | gerund | a cheeky kid not said here | with no one caring | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with caring=Material |
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's wrong with that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with that; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, sweets are free for children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 sweets | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 free | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 free | cop |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 free | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing sweets | for children; free property | tree rules |
Option 2
Only grown-ups can be caught
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 ups | advmod |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grown | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 caught | aux:pass |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | catch | can · passive | grown ups | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
In real life shops have cameras and staff, and it's stealing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 shops | case |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shops | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shops | compound |
| 4 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 staff | cc |
| 8 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cameras | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stealing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stealing | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stealing | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stealing | aux |
| 13 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 have | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | real life shops | cameras and staff | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient | ||||
| 2 | steal | present · progressive | staff | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Real shops let anyone take things
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shops | amod |
| 2 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | Real shops | anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | anyone not said here | things | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
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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