Test 10 · Pencils, paper and school things

«baby bro swallowed a pen cap, he's breathing fine, don't tell mum» What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby bro, bro, you · What happens: swallow, breathe, not tell, do · To what, where: pen cap, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 6 «Pencils, paper and school things» 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	_	4 swallowed	punct
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bro	compound
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallowed	nsubj
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cap	det
6	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cap	compound
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallowed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 breathing	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 breathing	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 breathing	aux
11	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 swallowed	conj
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breathing	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 breathing	parataxis
17	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 do	obj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 swallowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	swallow in a quote	past	baby bro	a pen cap			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Patient
2	breathe in a quote	present · progressive	bro			fine property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support			mum		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do	should	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Wait a week and see what happens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 see	cc
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 happens	nsubj
7	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	week	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen	present			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 3

Give him some water and forget it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 forget	cc
6	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	some water	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Theme
2	forget	infinitive	you not said here	water					tree rules

Option 4

Keep it secret so nobody gets cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 gets	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
7	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	get	present	nobody	cross					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus

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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