Test 10 · ★★★ · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…

«shop's got pretty painted shells for my crab, buying 'em» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shop · What happens: get, paint, buy, be · To what, where: painted shells, 'em, best advice

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 330 «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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	shop	shop	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	root	root
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 painted	advmod
6	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 shells	amod
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 crab	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 crab	nmod:poss
10	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shells	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 buying	punct
12	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 got	advcl
13	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 buying	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 advice	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 advice	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 advice	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 advice	amod
19	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	shop	painted shells	for my crab	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shell=Theme for crab=Beneficiary
2	paint in a quote	participle			pretty property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	buy in a quote	gerund	shop not said here	'em = they		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is a	present		the best advice		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

The paint makes crabs grow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 paint	det
2	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the paint	crabs					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	crabs not said here					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Crabs only move into painted shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
3	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 shells	case
5	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shells	amod
6	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Crabs			painted shells			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into shell=Trajectory
2	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Painted shells keep crabs healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shells	amod
2	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
5	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	Painted shells	crabs				healthy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Painted shells can harm crabs; offer plain empty shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shells	amod
2	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 harm	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 harm	aux
4	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 harm	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 offer	punct
7	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 harm	conj
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shells	amod
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shells	amod
10	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 offer	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	paint	participle			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	harm	can	Painted shells	crabs	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crab=Experiencer
3	offer	infinitive	Painted shells not said here	plain empty shells	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent shell=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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