Test 2 · ★ · The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flyin…

«gross, the rose is covered in green bugs, just spray the lot» What could a gardener do instead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gardener · What happens: cover, spray, do · To what, where: gross, lot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 334 «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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 gross	punct
2	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gross	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rose	det
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 covered	aux:pass
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bugs	case
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bugs	amod
10	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 covered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spray	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 spray	advmod
13	spray	spray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 covered	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lot	det
15	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spray	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 spray	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 do	obj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 gardener	det
20	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 spray	parataxis
22	instead	instead	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover in a quote	present · passive		gross	in green bugs	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in bug=Theme
2	spray in a quote	infinitive		the lot		tree rules
3	do	could	a gardener		instead property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Leave the ladybirds to eat the aphids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladybirds	det
3	ladybirds	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leave	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 aphids	det
7	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the ladybirds					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladybird=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	the aphids					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient

Option 2

Pour milk on the rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 rose	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rose	det
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	milk		the rose			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient

Option 3

Pull up the whole rose bush and plant a new one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pull	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bush	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bush	amod
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bush	compound
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pull	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 plant	cc
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bush	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	imperative	you not said here	the whole rose bush and plant					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent bush=Theme one=Result

Option 4

Spray the ladybirds too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladybirds	det
3	ladybirds	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Spray	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	1 Spray	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	imperative	you not said here	the ladybirds					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ladybird=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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