Test 7 · Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers

«keeper's got a giraffe licking her hand, I wanna try» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: keeper, giraffe, I · What happens: get, lick, try, be · To what, where: giraffe, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 109 «Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers» of the biology 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 got	punct
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 try	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giraffe	det
6	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	licking	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 giraffe	acl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 licking	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 try	nsubj
12	wanna	wanna	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 try	aux
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 try	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 try	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	keeper	a giraffe		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giraffe=Stimulus
2	lick in a quote	gerund	a giraffe not said here	keeper's hand		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source
3	try in a quote		I			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
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

Fine, giraffes are such gentle animals that they cannot hurt people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 giraffes	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 animals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animals	cop
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 hurt	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hurt	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hurt	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hurt	advmod
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 animals	advcl
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fine giraffes	such gentle animals					tree rules
2	not hurt	can	giraffes = giraffe	people					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient

Option 2

Fine, if you bring some leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bring	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 bring	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bring	nsubj
5	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 leaves	det
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	you	some leaves					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme

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

Keepers built that trust over months; visitors must stay back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 trust	det
4	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 months	case
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 stay	punct
8	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stay	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stay	aux
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 built	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Keepers	that trust			month		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trust=Product
2	stay back	must	visitors						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Fine, any giraffe likes any person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 likes	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 giraffe	det
4	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likes	nsubj
5	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	any giraffe	any person					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot person=Theme

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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