Test 5 · ★★ · Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog…

«found a tick on me after camping, I'll just squeeze it off» What is better?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: find, camp, squeeze off, be · To what, where: tick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tick	det
4	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 found	obl
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 camping	mark
8	camping	camp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 squeeze	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 camping	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 squeeze	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 squeeze	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 squeeze	advmod
13	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 squeeze	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	13 squeeze	compound:prt
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 better	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 better	cop
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 found	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a tick	on me	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tick=Attribute clause=Theme
2	camp in a quote	gerund	I not said here			vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
3	squeeze off in a quote	future	I	tick		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	present			good property	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

Burn it with a match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	it				with a match	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with match=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a grown-up, who takes it out close to the skin with a tick tool

The tree, 16 words

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	3 grown	det
3	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 grown	compound
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 takes	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 takes	nsubj
8	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 takes	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 takes	compound:prt
11	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 takes	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 skin	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 skin	det
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 close	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 tool	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tool	det
17	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tool	compound
18	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 takes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a grown					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient
2	take out	present		grown				with a tick tool; close property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Leave it there for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it		there	week		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Squeeze its body hard between two fingers until it lets go of the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 body	nmod:poss
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeeze	obj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Squeeze	advmod
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 fingers	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fingers	nummod
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Squeeze	obl
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 lets	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lets	nsubj
10	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Squeeze	advcl
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lets	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 skin	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 skin	det
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	its body	two fingers	hard property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme between finger=Destination
2	let	present	body				tree rules
3	go	infinitive	body not said here			of the skin	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of skin=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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