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Test 8 · ★ · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

Ben in Colorado steps on a rake and the handle hits his nose. How could it have been avoided?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, handle · What happens: step, hit, avoid · To what, where: rake, nose

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Ben in Colorado steps on a rake and the handle hits his nose.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 steps	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Colorado	case
3	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ben	nmod
4	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 rake	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rake	det
7	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steps	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hits	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 handle	det
10	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hits	nsubj
11	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 steps	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nose	nmod:poss
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hits	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 steps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	present	Ben in Colorado			a rake			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rake=Trajectory
2	hit	present	the handle	handle's nose					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nose=Co-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.

Sentence 2: How could it have been avoided?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 avoided	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 avoided	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 avoided	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 avoided	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 avoided	aux:pass
6	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 avoided	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	could · perfect · passive		nose					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location

The options

Option 1

By raking faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 raking	mark
2	raking	rake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 raking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rake	gerund						fast property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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

By laying the rake teeth down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 laying	mark
2	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teeth	det
4	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teeth	compound
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 laying	obj
6	down	down	ADV	_	2 laying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	gerund		the rake teeth				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Result

Option 3

By wearing gardening gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 wearing	mark
2	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	gardening	gardening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gloves	compound
4	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	gerund		gardening gloves					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glove=Theme

Option 4

By using a longer rake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 using	mark
2	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rake	det
4	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 rake	amod
5	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		a longer rake					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rake=Patient

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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