Test 1 · ★ · Diggers, cranes and cement mixers

«the site's empty on Sunday, let's go play on the sand piles» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 's · What happens: let, go, pile, be · To what, where: 's, play, sand

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 28 «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» of the technology 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	_	5 empty	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 site	det
3	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 empty	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 site	case
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 piles	csubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Sunday	case
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 empty	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	parataxis
10	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 sand	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sand	det
15	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	piles	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 piles	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 piles	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 piles	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		's			tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	's not said here	play	the sand		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location play=Theme
3	pile in a quote	present					vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
4	is	present				right property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Fine, there are no machines on Sundays, so there's nothing that can hurt you

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 are	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	parataxis
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 machines	det
6	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Sundays	case
8	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 machines	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 's	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 's	advmod
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 's	expl
12	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	parataxis
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 's	nsubj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hurt	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hurt	aux
16	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 nothing	acl:relcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	does	present	no machines on Sundays		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hurt	can		you		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Never go in: building sites are dangerous even when empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 go	advmod
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 dangerous	punct
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sites	compound
6	sites	site	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dangerous	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dangerous	cop
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 go	parataxis
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 empty	advmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 empty	advmod
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dangerous	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go in	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	building sites					dangerous property	tree rules

Option 3

Fine, if one of you keeps watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keeps	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 keeps	mark
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 keeps	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	one of you	watch					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme

Option 4

Fine, if you stay on the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 stay	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
5	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 sand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sand	det
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	you			the sand			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location

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