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Test 4 · ★ · Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbego…

A mate wades out and nearly steps on a lumpy patterned carpet on the seabed. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: wade out, step, pattern, do · To what, where: lumpy patterned carpet

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 311 «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» 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

Sentence 1: A mate wades out and nearly steps on a lumpy patterned carpet on the seabed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mate	det
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wades	nsubj
3	wades	wade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 wades	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 steps	cc
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 steps	advmod
7	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wades	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 carpet	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 carpet	det
10	lumpy	lumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 carpet	amod
11	patterned	pattern	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 carpet	amod
12	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steps	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 seabed	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seabed	det
15	seabed	seabed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carpet	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wades	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wade out	present	a mate						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	step	present	a mate not said here			a lumpy patterned carpet on the seabed		nearly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on carpet=Trajectory
3	pattern	participle							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 should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	mate						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pick it up to take home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pick	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	take	to-infinitive	you not said here					home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Stamp on it to see if it moves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stamp	nmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stamp	acl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 moves	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 moves	nsubj
8	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	move a condition, not said to happen	present	Stamp						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Pull its frilly beard to check that it is only an old rug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 beard	nmod:poss
3	frilly	frilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beard	amod
4	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pull	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 check	mark
6	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pull	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 rug	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rug	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rug	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 rug	advmod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rug	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rug	amod
13	rug	rug	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 check	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	its frilly beard					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Theme
2	check	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	beard	a old rug					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Back off and not touch it; it may be a wobbegong that bites if trodden on

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	2 off	advmod
2	off	off	ADV	_	5 touch	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 touch	cc
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 touch	advmod
5	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touch	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 wobbegong	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wobbegong	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wobbegong	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 wobbegong	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wobbegong	det
12	wobbegong	wobbegong	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touch	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 bites	nsubj
14	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wobbegong	acl:relcl
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 trodden	mark
16	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 touch	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 trodden	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	imperative	you not said here	it				off property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	is a	may	it	a wobbegong					tree rules
3	bite	present	a wobbegong						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	tread on a condition, not said to happen	participle	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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