Test 7 · ★★ · Home myths, first aid and weather warnings

Why is grit or salt put on icy steps?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grit · What happens: be, put · To what, where: grit

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	grit	grit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 salt	cc
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grit	conj
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grit	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 steps	case
8	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 steps	amod
9	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	grit or salt					why property	tree rules
2	put	participle		grit or salt not said here				on icy steps	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on step=Destination

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 · ← Mova's choice

It keeps snow from falling

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 falling	mark
5	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keeps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	snow					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme
2	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It stops people slipping

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 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stops	obj
4	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	people					tree rules
2	slip	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

It makes the steps look clean

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 steps	det
4	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	ccomp
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It						tree rules
2	look	present	the steps					clean property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It makes the ice even thicker

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 ice	det
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 thicker	advmod
6	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the ice				thick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ice=Product

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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