Test 2 · ★★ · The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and w…

«the pond's frozen, dad's gonna smash it with a hammer for the fish» What is better?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad · What happens: freeze, smash, be · To what, where: pond

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 336 «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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	_	5 frozen	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pond	det
3	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frozen	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 pond	case
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 better	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 smash	punct
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smash	nsubj
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dad	case
9	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 smash	dep
10	smash	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 frozen	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smash	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 hammer	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hammer	det
14	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smash	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 fish	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fish	det
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hammer	nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 frozen	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 better	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 better	cop
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	freeze in a quote	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	smash in a quote	infinitive	dad	pond	with a hammer for the fish	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hammer=Instrument
3	is	present			good 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

Smash it hard and fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smash	smash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Smash	obj
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Smash	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fast	cc
5	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	imperative	you not said here	it				hard property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Smash it hard and fast with a hammer, then pour salt in the hole to stop it freezing again

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smash	smash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Smash	obj
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Smash	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fast	cc
5	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hard	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hammer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hammer	det
8	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fast	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pour	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 pour	advmod
11	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Smash	conj
12	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pour	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hole	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hole	det
15	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pour	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stop	mark
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pour	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stop	obj
19	freezing	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stop	xcomp
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 freezing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	imperative	you not said here	it			hard property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	pour	infinitive	you not said here	salt	the hole	then		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient
3	stop	to-infinitive	you not said here	salt				tree rules
4	freeze	gerund	you not said here			again		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Put salt on the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	salt		the pond			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme on pond=Destination

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

Do not smash it; the shock can hurt fish and frogs, a floating ball keeps a hole open

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 smash	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 smash	advmod
3	smash	smash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smash	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hurt	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shock	det
7	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smash	conj
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hurt	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 frogs	cc
12	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fish	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 keeps	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ball	det
15	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 ball	amod
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keeps	nsubj
17	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hole	det
19	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keeps	obj
20	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not smash	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hurt	can	the shock	fish and frogs		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Patient
3	float	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	present	a floating ball	a hole	open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=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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