Test 12 · ★★ · Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog…

«a weird bug bit me, I'm gonna catch it and bring it in a jar» What is the best plan?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: weird bug, I, best plan · What happens: bite, catch, bring, be · To what, where: me, bug, jar

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 399 «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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 bit	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bug	det
3	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bug	amod
4	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nsubj
5	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 What	obl:unmarked
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 catch	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 catch	aux
10	gonna	gonna	PART	_	11 catch	mark
11	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bit	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 catch	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bring	cc
14	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 catch	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bring	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 jar	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 jar	det
18	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 What	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 plan	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 plan	amod
24	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 What	nsubj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bite in a quote	past	a weird bug	me		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	catch in a quote	present	I	bug		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	bring in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	bug	a jar	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is a	present	the best plan			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

Squash it and keep it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squash	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 keep	cc
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Squash	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	imperative	you not said here	it					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Catch it with your bare hand and keep it in the jar for the doctor

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Catch	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 hand	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 keep	cc
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Catch	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keep	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 jar	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 jar	det
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 doctor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 doctor	det
15	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	it				with your bare hand	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	hand		the jar		for the doctor	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in jar=Location

Option 3

Let it bite again to check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 bite	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 check	mark
6	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bite	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	it		tree rules
2	bite	infinitive			again	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	check	to-infinitive				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a grown-up and take a photo from a safe distance instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 up	det
3	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 up	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 take	cc
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 photo	det
9	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 distance	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 distance	det
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 distance	amod
13	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
14	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a grown up					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
2	take	infinitive	you not said here	a photo				from a safe distance; instead property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent photo=Theme from distance=Initial_Location

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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