Test 3 · ★★ · Toys and Lego

«balloon popped, me little bro's chewing a bit, aww» What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: balloon, little bro, you · What happens: pop, chew, do · To what, where: me, bit

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» 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	_	3 popped	punct
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 popped	nsubj
3	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 me	punct
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 popped	obl
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bro	amod
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 popped	obj
8	's	's	PART	_	7 bro	case
9	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 bro	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chewing	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 aww	punct
13	aww	aww	INTJ	_	3 popped	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 popped	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 do	obj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 popped	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 popped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pop in a quote	past	balloon	me	tree rules
2	chew in a quote	gerund	little bro not said here	a bit	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	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 · ← Mova's choice

Leave him to it, balloon rubber is soft and perfectly safe to chew on

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 soft	punct
6	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rubber	compound
7	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 soft	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 soft	cop
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Leave	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 safe	cc
11	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	12 safe	advmod
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soft	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 chew	mark
14	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 safe	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 chew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	him = he	it		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to it=Recipient
2	is	present	balloon rubber			soft property	tree rules
3	be		balloon rubber not said here			perfectly property	tree rules
4	chew on	to-infinitive	balloon rubber not said here				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Let him try to blow the bit up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 blow	mark
5	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blow	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 blow	compound:prt
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 blow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he		tree rules
2	try	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	blow up not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	the bit	again	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bit=Patient

Option 3

Give him a whole new balloon instead

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 balloon	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 balloon	amod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 balloon	amod
6	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a whole new balloon	him = he			instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient balloon=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Take it away and tell an adult; balloon bits can choke little ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 choke	punct
9	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bits	compound
10	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 choke	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 choke	aux
12	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ones	amod
14	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 choke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take away	imperative	you not said here	it		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	choke	can	balloon bits	little ones			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination

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