Test 1 · ★ · Sharp things, small objects and little ones

Which way of carrying scissors is safest if you trip?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way, you · What happens: carry, be, trip · To what, where: scissors

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 112 «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 safest	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 carrying	mark
4	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 way	acl
5	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carrying	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safest	cop
7	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 trip	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 trip	nsubj
10	trip	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safest	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 safest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund	which way not said here	scissors		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme
2	is	present	which way		safe property	tree rules
3	trip a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn run-51.3.2-2 «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.

The options

Option 1

Open and pointing up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pointing	cc
3	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Open	conj
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pointing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point up	gerund							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Closed and pointing forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pointing	cc
3	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Closed	conj
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 pointing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	point	gerund						forward property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Closed and pointing down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pointing	cc
3	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Closed	conj
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 pointing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	point down	gerund						down property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Open and held by one blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 held	cc
3	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Open	conj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 blade	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 blade	nummod
6	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle						by one blade	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by blade=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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