Test 4 · Sleepovers and spooky stories

"if u fall asleep first we're putting ur hand in warm water lol" What's fair to say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, we, warm water lol · What happens: fall, put, be, say · To what, where: hand, warm water lol · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 26 «Sleepovers and spooky stories» 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	_	9 putting	punct
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 fall	mark
3	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 fall	nsubj
4	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 putting	advcl
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fall	xcomp
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 fall	advmod
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 putting	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 putting	aux
9	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 putting	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 lol	case
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lol	amod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lol	compound
15	lol	lol	NOUN	_	9 putting	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 fair	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 fair	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fair	cop
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lol	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 say	mark
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fair	csubj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 putting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	u			asleep, first property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put in a quote	present · progressive	we	ur's hand	warm water lol		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in lol=Destination
3	is	present	warm water lol			fair property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

It works every time, so stay awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 stay	advmod
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 works	conj
8	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It				time		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	infinitive						awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only cold water works, not warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 warm	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 warm	advmod
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 works	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	cold water						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There's no good evidence it works, and it's mean to prank sleepers

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 evidence	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	amod
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 works	nsubj
7	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 evidence	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mean	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mean	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mean	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mean	cop
12	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 's	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 prank	mark
14	prank	prank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 mean	xcomp
15	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 prank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no good evidence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work	present	evidence	no good evidence not said here			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent evidence=Material
3	is	present	it			mean property	tree rules
4	prank not said to happen	to-infinitive		sleepers			tree rules

Option 4

It's fine because everyone does it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 does	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 does	nsubj
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	do	present	everyone	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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