Test 15 · ★★ · Home myths, first aid and weather warnings

grandad says put toothpaste on a burn

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: put · To what, where: grandad, burn

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 120 «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» 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	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj:pass
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux:pass
3	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 burn	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 burn	det
7	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · passive		grandad		a burn			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset toothpaste=Goal

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, cool running water for 20 minutes is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 cool	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 right	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
7	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 minutes	nummod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 water	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 right	cop
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	cool running water for 20 minutes					right property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, toothpaste cools the burn and is the best thing to use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cools	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cools	nsubj
4	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 burn	det
6	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cools	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thing	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cools	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 use	mark
13	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cool	present	toothpaste	the burn	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent burn=Patient
2	is a	present	toothpaste not said here	the best thing	tree rules
3	use	to-infinitive	toothpaste not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, with butter too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 butter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 butter	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 butter	case
4	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 butter	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Use ice for an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 hour	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	ice			hour		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=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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