Test 2 · ★★ · Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog…

«it itches like mad, gonna scratch till it bleeds» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, you, best advice · What happens: itch, scratch, bleed, be

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	_	3 itches	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 itches	nsubj
3	itches	itch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 scratch	advcl
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 mad	case
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 itches	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scratch	punct
7	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 scratch	dep
8	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 bleeds	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bleeds	nsubj
11	bleeds	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 scratch	advcl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 scratch	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 scratch	conj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 advice	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 advice	amod
17	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 scratch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	itch in a quote	present	it	like mad	vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	scratch in a quote	imperative	you not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bleed in a quote	present	it		vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
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 · ← Mova's choice

Scratching hard makes the itch go away for good, so keep going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Scratching	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 itch	det
5	itch	itch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keep	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 keep	advmod
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	conj
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scratch	gerund			hard property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Scratching	the itch		tree rules
3	go away	infinitive	the itch not said here		for good; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary
4	keep	infinitive	Scratching not said here			tree rules
5	go	gerund	Scratching not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Scratching removes all the spit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 removes	nsubj
2	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 spit	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spit	det
5	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 removes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	gerund							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remove	present		all spit					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spit=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Scratching makes it itch more, so leave it and use a cool cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	itch	itch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 itch	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leave	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 leave	advmod
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leave	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 use	cc
11	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leave	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cloth	det
13	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cloth	amod
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	scratch	gerund		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	it	tree rules
3	itch	infinitive		vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	leave	infinitive	it	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	use	infinitive	a cool cloth	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient

Option 4

Scratch it with a stick instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Scratch	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scratch	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Scratch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	imperative	you not said here	it				with a stick; instead property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stick=Instrument

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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