Test 1 · ★ · Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang

"dad turned off his phone at the pump lol does it rly blow up" What's the honest answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, phone · What happens: turn off, blow up, be · To what, where: phone, pump lol, honest answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 23 «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 turned	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 phone	nmod:poss
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 lol	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lol	det
9	pump	pump	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lol	compound
10	lol	lol	NOUN	_	3 turned	obl
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 blow	aux
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 blow	nsubj
13	rly	rly	ADV	_	14 blow	advmod
14	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 blow	compound:prt
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 answer	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 answer	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answer	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 answer	det
20	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 answer	amod
21	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blow	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn off in a quote	past	dad	dad's phone	the pump lol		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent phone=Patient
2	blow up in a quote	present · do-support	phone			rly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	be speech: assert	present		the honest answer			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.

The options

Option 1

Only iPhones do it, not other phones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 iPhones	advmod
2	iPhones	iphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 phones	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 phones	advmod
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 phones	amod
8	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No proven case, but follow the station's rules; static is the bigger risk

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 case	det
2	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 case	amod
3	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 follow	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 follow	cc
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 station	det
8	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rules	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 station	case
10	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 follow	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 risk	punct
12	static	static	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 risk	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 risk	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 risk	det
15	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 risk	amod
16	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	prove	participle			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	follow	infinitive	no proven case	the station's rules	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
3	is a	present	static	the bigger risk	tree rules
4	rule		the station		nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, so you can use your phone however you like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 use	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 phone	nmod:poss
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obj
9	however	however	ADV	_	11 like	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
11	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	can	you	your phone					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient
2	like	present	you					however property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Yes, phones blow up petrol stations every week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 blow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blow	nsubj
4	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 blow	compound:prt
6	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stations	compound
7	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blow	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 week	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow up	present	phones	petrol stations			week		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent station=Patient

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