Test 4 · Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps,…

«there's a snake on the path, chuck a stick at it!» What is the best thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake, you, best thing · What happens: be, chuck, do · To what, where: stick

This is test 4 of lesson 393 «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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: «there's a snake on the path, chuck a stick at it!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 chuck	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 's	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 path	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snake	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chuck	punct
10	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stick	det
12	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chuck	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chuck	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 chuck	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	a snake on the path			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chuck in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a stick				at snake	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stick=Theme at it=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 is the best thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Stamp near it to scare it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	near	near	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stamp	nmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 scare	mark
5	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stamp	acl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive		Stamp					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stand still, let it slide away, or go round it at a distance

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 Stand	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 slide	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	conj
11	round	round	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 go	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 distance	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 distance	det
15	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	it				tree rules
3	slide away	infinitive					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	infinitive	you not said here		it		at a distance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round it=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Pick it up by the tail and put it to one side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 tail	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tail	det
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 side	nummod
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it				by the tail	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	put	infinitive	you not said here	tail				to one side	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

Option 4

Throw sticks at it until it moves off the path and into the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sticks	nsubj
2	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sticks	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 moves	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moves	nsubj
7	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sticks	advcl
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 path	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 path	det
10	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moves	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grass	cc
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 path	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	Throw			it			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at it=Destination
2	move off	present	Throw	the path and the grass					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme path=Result

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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