Test 5 · ★★★ · More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows…

«Mia touched a toad, she's gonna get warts lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: touch, be · To what, where: toad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 154 «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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	_	3 touched	punct
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 touched	nsubj
3	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toad	det
5	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 get	cop
9	gonna	gonna	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 touched	conj
11	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	obj
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 get	discourse
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 touched	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 touched	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 touched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch in a quote	past	Mia	a toad		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	Mia		get property	tree rules
3	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

Yes, unless she kisses the toad straight away to break the spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 kisses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kisses	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 kisses	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kisses	nsubj
5	kisses	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 toad	det
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kisses	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 kisses	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 break	mark
11	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 away	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spell	det
13	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	present	she	the toad				away property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Co-Agent
2	break	to-infinitive	she not said here	the spell					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient

Option 2

Yes, warts within a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 warts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warts	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Only if it was a green toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	7 toad	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 toad	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 toad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 toad	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 toad	det
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toad	amod
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a green toad					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Warts come from a virus between people, not toads, but she should wash her hands

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 virus	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 virus	det
5	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 virus	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 toads	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 toads	advmod
10	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 people	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wash	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 wash	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wash	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 wash	aux
15	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 come	conj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Warts			a virus between people and toads			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from virus=Initial_Location
2	wash	should	she	her hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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