Test 7 · ★★★ · Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish

oi, can i grab that cute little octopus with blue rings in the rock pool?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, that · What happens: grab, octopus

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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	oi	oi	INTJ	_	5 grab	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 oi	punct
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grab	aux
4	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 grab	nsubj
5	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 octopus	nsubj
7	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 octopus	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 octopus	amod
9	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grab	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 rings	case
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rings	amod
12	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 octopus	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 pool	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pool	det
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pool	compound
16	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rings	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	can	i						vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	octopus		that					with blue rings in the rock pool	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

Yes, it is harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 harmless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 harmless	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harmless	cop
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					harmless property	tree rules

Option 2

Only if it is sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 sleeping	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 sleeping	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sleeping	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sleeping	aux
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · progressive	it						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, but only if you hold it gently with wet hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 hold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hold	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 hold	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 hold	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 hold	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 hold	nsubj
7	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	obj
9	gently	gently	ADV	_	7 hold	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hands	case
11	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hands	amod
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	you	it				with wet hands; gently property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, its bite can kill, so never pick it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 kill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bite	nmod:poss
4	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	aux
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pick	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 pick	advmod
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 pick	advmod
10	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pick	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 pick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	kill	can	its bite		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not pick up	infinitive		bite	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	bite		its = it		nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent

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