Test 13 · ★ · Sharp things, small objects and little ones

pass me the scissors

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

This is test 13 · ★ 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	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 pass	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scissors	det
4	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pass	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	imperative	you not said here	the scissors	me				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient scissors=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

Slide them over with the blades out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slide	slide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Slide	obj
3	over	over	ADP	_	1 Slide	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 blades	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blades	det
6	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Slide	obl
7	out	out	ADV	_	1 Slide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide over	imperative	you not said here	them = they				with the blades; out property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Pass them open, points first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pass	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 points	punct
5	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pass	obl
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Pass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	imperative	you not said here	them = they				points obl; first, open property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hand them over closed, handle first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hand	obj
3	over	over	SCONJ	_	4 closed	mark
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hand	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 handle	punct
6	handle	handle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hand	parataxis
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 handle	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hand	imperative	you not said here	them = they		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	close	participle	you not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	handle	infinitive			first property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Throw them over gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	over	over	ADP	_	1 Throw	compound:prt
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Throw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw over	imperative	you not said here	them = they				gently property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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