Test 6 · Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps,…

«it's just a grass snake, it's played dead, poke it» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, play, poke · To what, where: grass snake, snake, best advice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 snake	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snake	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 snake	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 snake	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 snake	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snake	compound
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 played	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snake	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 played	nsubj:pass
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 played	aux
11	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 played	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poke	punct
14	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 played	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 poke	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 poke	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 advice	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 advice	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 advice	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 advice	amod
21	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 played	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 played	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	a grass snake		tree rules
2	play in a quote	present · passive		a grass snake	dead property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	poke in a quote	infinitive		snake		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is a	present		the best advice		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

Turn it over to check it is dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turn	obj
3	over	over	ADP	_	1 Turn	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 check	mark
5	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Turn	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dead	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 check	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn over	imperative	you not said here	it		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	check	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it		dead property	tree rules

Option 2

Pick it up and take it home as a pet

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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 take	cc
5	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj
7	home	home	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 pet	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pet	det
10	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	take	infinitive	you not said here	it				as a pet; home property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as pet=Attribute

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

Leave all snakes alone, even harmless ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 snakes	det
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leave	obj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Leave	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ones	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 ones	advmod
7	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	all snakes				harmless ones obl; alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme

Option 4

Poke it, grass snakes like being prodded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 snakes	punct
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snakes	compound
5	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Poke	obl
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 prodded	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 prodded	aux:pass
8	prodded	prod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 snakes	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here	it				grass snakes obl	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	prod	gerund · passive		grass snakes not said here					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»

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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