Test 9 · ★★ · Home alone, keys and garden play
You are walking near stinging nettles in shorts. What would have helped?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: walk, sting, help · To what, where: stinging nettles
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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: You are walking near stinging nettles in shorts.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 walking | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 walking | aux |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 nettles | case |
| 5 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 nettles | amod |
| 6 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walking | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shorts | case |
| 8 | shorts | short | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walking | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present · progressive | You | stinging nettles | in shorts | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near nettle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sting | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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: What would have helped?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 helped | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 helped | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 helped | aux |
| 4 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 helped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would · perfect | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Wearing long sleeves and long trousers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sleeves | amod |
| 3 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wearing | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 trousers | cc |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trousers | amod |
| 6 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sleeves | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | gerund | long sleeves and long trousers | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sleeve=Source |
Option 2
Running through them quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Running | obl |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Running | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | through them = they; quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory |
Option 3
Wearing sandals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wearing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | gerund | sandals | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sandal=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Touching them gently with one finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Touching | obj |
| 3 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 1 Touching | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 finger | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 finger | nummod |
| 6 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Touching | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | gerund | them = they | with one finger; gently property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer with finger=Instrument |
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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