Test 10 · ★ · Sharp things, small objects and little ones

found a needle on the path at the park, pick it up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find, pick up · To what, where: needle, path

This is test 10 · ★ 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	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 needle	det
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 path	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 park	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 park	det
9	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 path	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pick	punct
11	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 found	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pick	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 pick	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		a needle		the path at the park			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Topic
2	pick up	infinitive		needle					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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

Yes, with your fingertips only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fingertips	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fingertips	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 fingertips	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fingertips	nmod:poss
5	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	5 fingertips	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Kick it into the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kick	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 grass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	imperative	you not said here	it				into the grass result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into grass=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, pick it up and put it in the bin carefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 pick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
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	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 put	cc
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pick	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bin	det
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	7 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	put	infinitive	you not said here	it		the bin		carefully property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bin=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, never touch it, tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 touch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touch	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	conj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 adult	det
9	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	imperative	you not said here	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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

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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