Test 16 · ★ · Sharp things, small objects and little ones

walking with scissors pointing up, all good

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: scissors · What happens: walk, point up

This is test 16 · ★ 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	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 good	csubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 scissors	case
3	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 walking	obl
4	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 scissors	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pointing	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 walking	punct
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund						with scissors	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	point up	gerund	scissors not said here						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Pointing up is safer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 safer	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pointing	compound:prt
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safer	cop
4	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	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
2	is	present	Pointing					safe property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Carry them pointing down and closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carry	obj
3	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Carry	xcomp
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 pointing	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 closed	cc
6	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pointing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	them = they		tree rules
2	point down	gerund	you not said here		down property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	close	participle	you not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Wave them to show you have them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wave	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 show	mark
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wave	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wave	imperative	you not said here	them = they	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	show	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	you	them = they	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Run with them so you get there faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Run	obl
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	advcl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 get	advmod
8	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here					with them = they	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with they=Material
2	get	present	you			there		fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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