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Test 9 · ★★ · Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures

A tick is stuck on your dog after a walk. What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: stick, do · To what, where: tick

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» 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 tick is stuck on your dog after a walk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tick	det
2	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	aux:pass
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 dog	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dog	nmod:poss
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 walk	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 walk	det
10	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present · passive		a tick			after a walk	on your dog	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on dog=Destination

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 you 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	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 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	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Leave it, ticks fall off at once

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	_	5 fall	punct
4	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fall	nsubj
5	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fall	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 fall	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	fall off	present	ticks						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Burn it off with a match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burn	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Burn	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 match	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 match	det
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn off	imperative	you not said here	it				with a match	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with match=Instrument

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

Ask an adult to remove it with a tick tool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 remove	mark
5	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remove	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 tool	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tool	det
9	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tool	compound
10	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	remove not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	adult				with a tick tool	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Pull it off with your fingers and squash it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pull	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Pull	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 fingers	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fingers	nmod:poss
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pull	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 squash	cc
8	squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pull	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 squash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull off	imperative	you not said here	it				with your fingers	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	squash	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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