Test 3 · ★★ · Home myths, first aid and weather warnings

A boy in Canada drops a sandwich and says «five-second rule!». What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: drop, say, be · To what, where: sandwich · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Canada drops a sandwich and says «five-second rule!».

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 drops	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Canada	case
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sandwich	det
7	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 says	cc
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drops	conj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 rule	punct
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 second	nummod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 five	punct
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 rule	amod
14	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	ccomp
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 rule	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 rule	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	a boy in Canada	a sandwich					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a boy in Canada not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Germs got on it at once; the rule is a myth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 got	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 myth	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rule	det
9	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 myth	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 myth	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 myth	det
12	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Germs			it			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on it=Source
2	is a	present	the rule	a myth					tree rules

Option 2

It is safe if nobody saw it fall

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	3 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 saw	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 safe	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		safe property	tree rules
2	see a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	it		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	fall	infinitive				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is safe on carpet but not on tiles, because carpet is soft

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	3 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 carpet	case
5	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 safe	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 tiles	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tiles	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 tiles	case
9	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carpet	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 soft	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 soft	mark
12	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 soft	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 soft	cop
14	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 safe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			carpet but tiles		safe property	tree rules
2	is	present	carpet					soft property	tree rules

Option 4

It is safe because he was quick

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	3 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 quick	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 quick	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 quick	cop
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 safe	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					safe property	tree rules
2	is	past	he					quick property	tree rules

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