Test 16 · ★★ · Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home

kite stuck on a power line, gonna get it with a stick

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kite · What happens: stick, get · To what, where: kite, power line, line

This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 108 «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday 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	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	nsubj
2	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 kite	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 line	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 line	det
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 line	compound
6	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuck	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
8	gonna	gonna	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 stick	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stick	det
13	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		kite not said here		a power line			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on line=Destination
2	get	infinitive	kite	line				with a stick	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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

Throw stones at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throw	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	stones		it			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at it=Destination

Option 2

Use a wet stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stick	det
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a wet stick					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient

Option 3

Climb up the pole and grab it, it's not far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Climb	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pole	det
4	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grab	cc
6	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Climb	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grab	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 far	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 far	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 far	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Climb	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb up	imperative	you not said here	the pole		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location pole=Theme
2	grab	infinitive	you not said here	pole		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	not is	present	pole		far property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Leave it and tell an adult, power lines can kill

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	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lines	compound
9	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kill	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 kill	aux
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	kill	can	power lines			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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