Test 5 · Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime

Your little brother picks up a glue gun and says, "It's only glue, innit." What do you say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: little brother, gun, you · What happens: pick up, say, be · To what, where: glue gun, glue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 31 «Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime» of the arts 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

Sentence 1: Your little brother picks up a glue gun and says, "It's only glue, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picks	nsubj
4	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 picks	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gun	det
7	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gun	compound
8	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picks	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 picks	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 glue	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 glue	punct
13	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 glue	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 glue	cop
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 glue	advmod
16	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 glue	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picks	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 picks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pick up	present	Your little brother	a glue gun	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	Your little brother not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	gun	glue and innit	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.

Sentence 2: What do you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

He should touch the tip first to see if it is working properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touch	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 touch	aux
3	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tip	det
5	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touch	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 touch	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 touch	advcl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 working	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 working	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 working	aux
12	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 see	advcl
13	properly	properly	ADV	_	12 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	should	He	the tip	first property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tip=Co-Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	work a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	tip		properly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is fine as long as he does it very quickly and carefully

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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 long	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 does	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 long	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 does	obj
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 quickly	advmod
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 does	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 carefully	cc
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 long	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It burns, get an adult

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 burns	nsubj
2	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 burns	advcl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	It						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	infinitive		a adult					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus

Option 4

Glue guns are toys made for kids, so he can use it by himself

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guns	compound
2	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 toys	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 toys	cop
4	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 toys	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 kids	case
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 use	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 use	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 use	aux
12	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 toys	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 use	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Glue guns	toys		tree rules
2	make	participle		toys not said here	for kids	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for kid=Beneficiary
3	use	can	he	it	by himself = he	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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