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Test 4 · ★ · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

A boy in Melbourne wants to collect the stones in front of the mower while his mum mows. Why is this wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, mum, this · What happens: want, collect, mow, be · To what, where: stones, front

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 115 «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» 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 in Melbourne wants to collect the stones in front of the mower while his mum mows.

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	5 wants	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Melbourne	case
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 collect	mark
7	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stones	det
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 collect	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 collect	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 mower	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mower	det
14	mower	mower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 front	nmod
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 mows	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mum	nmod:poss
17	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mows	nsubj
18	mows	mow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 collect	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a boy in Melbourne						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	collect not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Melbourne not said here	the stones		front of the mower			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	mow	present	boy's mum						vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: 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.

Sentence 2: Why is this wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wrong	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wrong	nsubj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It makes the grass grow back much faster and thicker afterwards

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 faster	advmod
8	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thicker	cc
10	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 faster	conj
11	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the grass				afterwards property	tree rules
2	grow back	present	the grass not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The mower can throw stones and its blades can cut feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mower	det
2	mower	mower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 throw	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cut	cc
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 blades	nmod:poss
8	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux
10	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	conj
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	can	the mower	stones					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	cut	can	mower's blades	feet					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset foot=Product

Option 3

The mower will stop working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mower	det
2	mower	mower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	the mower						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	the mower not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It scares the birds away

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 scares	nsubj
2	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scares	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 scares	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	present	It	the birds				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

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