Test 9 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous

«found a pretty cone shell, gonna pop it in my pocket» What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: find, pop, do · To what, where: pretty cone shell, shell, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 188 «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shell	det
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shell	amod
5	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shell	compound
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pop	punct
8	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 pop	dep
9	pop	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pop	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pocket	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pocket	nmod:poss
13	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pop	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	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	2 found	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a pretty cone shell		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent shell=Attribute clause=Theme
2	pop in a quote	infinitive		shell	my pocket	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
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

Hold it to your ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 ear	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ear	nmod:poss
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it				to your ear	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Squeeze it to check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeeze	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 check	mark
4	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Squeeze	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	check	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Leave it: the snail inside can sting with deadly venom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 sting	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snail	det
5	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sting	nsubj
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 snail	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sting	aux
8	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 venom	case
10	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 venom	amod
11	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	sting	can	the snail					with deadly venom	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Pocket it, because empty shells are always safe to keep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pocket	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 safe	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 safe	mark
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shells	amod
6	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 safe	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 safe	advmod
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pocket	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 safe	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	empty shells					always, safe property	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	empty shells not said here						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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