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Test 6 · ★★★ · Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles,…

«a skunk's raising its tail at our tent, shut up and keep still or chase it?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: best answer · What happens: raise, shut up, keep, chase, be · To what, where: tail, tent

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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

Sentence 1: «a skunk's raising its tail at our tent, shut up and keep still or chase it?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 raising	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 skunk	det
3	skunk	skunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raising	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 skunk	case
5	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raising	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 tent	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tent	nmod:poss
10	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raising	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shut	punct
12	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 raising	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 shut	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 keep	cc
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 raising	conj
16	still	still	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 chase	cc
18	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 keep	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 chase	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 raising	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 raising	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise in a quote	gerund		skunk's tail		our tent			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme at tent=Destination
2	shut up in a quote	participle							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	keep in a quote	infinitive					still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	chase in a quote	infinitive		tail					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Try to pick it up gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 pick	mark
3	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Try	xcomp
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	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 pick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	pick up not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				gently property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Back away slowly and give it lots of room; that is a warning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	3 slowly	advmod
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 give	cc
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	obj
7	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lots	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 warning	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 warning	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 warning	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 warning	det
14	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it				slowly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient lot=Theme
2	is a	present	that	a warning					tree rules

Option 3

Run straight at it shouting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Run	obl
5	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			it		straight property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at it=Trajectory
2	shout speech: express	gerund	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Chase it off with a stick before it gets any closer to the tent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chase	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Chase	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 stick	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chase	obl
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 gets	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Chase	advcl
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 closer	det
11	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 gets	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 tent	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tent	det
14	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	imperative	you not said here	it				with a stick	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	get	present	stick					close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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