Test 5 · ★ · The desert: living with little water

«found a glowing scorpion with me UV torch, gonna grab it for a pic» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: UV torch, best advice · What happens: find, glow, grab, be · To what, where: glowing scorpion, torch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 5 «The desert: living with little water» 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	5 scorpion	det
4	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 scorpion	amod
5	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 found	obl
8	UV	ultra-violet	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	9 torch	compound
9	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grab	punct
11	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	12 grab	dep
12	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 torch	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grab	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 pic	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pic	det
16	pic	pic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grab	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 found	parataxis
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 What	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 advice	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 advice	amod
22	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 What	nsubj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a glowing scorpion	with me	tree rules
2	glow in a quote	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grab in a quote	infinitive	UV torch not said here	torch	for a pic	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for pic=Beneficiary
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 · ✓ the right answer

Do not pick it up, even though most kinds are not deadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pick	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pick	advmod
3	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pick	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 pick	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deadly	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	13 deadly	advmod
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 deadly	mark
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 kinds	amod
10	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 deadly	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 deadly	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 deadly	advmod
13	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pick up	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	not is	present	most kinds					deadly property	tree rules

Option 2

Grab it, glowing ones are safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grab	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 safe	punct
4	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 safe	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Grab	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	it		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	glow	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	glowing ones		safe property	tree rules

Option 3

Grab it by the tail, because it can't sting you if you hold it there

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grab	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tail	det
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grab	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sting	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 sting	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sting	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sting	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 sting	advmod
11	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Grab	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 sting	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 hold	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hold	nsubj
15	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sting	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hold	obj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	it		by the tail	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not sting	can	tail	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3	hold a condition, not said to happen	present	you	tail	there		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Fine, scorpions only sting in the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scorpions	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sting	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 sting	advmod
5	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	present	Fine scorpions				day		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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