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Test 3 · ★ · Chores and broken things

A boy waters his cactus every day, and it goes soft and brown at the bottom. What went wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, cactus · What happens: water, go · To what, where: cactus

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 111 «Chores and broken things» 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

Sentence 1: A boy waters his cactus every day, and it goes soft and brown at the bottom.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waters	nsubj
3	waters	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cactus	nmod:poss
5	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waters	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waters	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 goes	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 goes	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 goes	nsubj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waters	conj
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 goes	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brown	cc
14	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 soft	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 bottom	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bottom	det
17	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 soft	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waters	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	water	present	a boy	boy's cactus			day		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cactus=Destination
2	go	present	cactus					soft property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 went wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past						wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It was much too dry in its little pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	5 dry	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 dry	advmod
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 pot	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pot	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pot	amod
9	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It			its little pot		dry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It needed even more water every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	It	more water			day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

Option 3

Cacti hate being looked at too often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cacti	cactus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 looked	aux:pass
4	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hate	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	4 looked	compound:prt
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 often	advmod
7	often	often	ADV	_	2 hate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Cacti					often property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look at not said to happen	gerund · passive	Cacti not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Too much water rotted its roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rotted	nsubj
4	rotted	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 roots	nmod:poss
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rotted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	past	much water	water's roots					tree rules

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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