Test 15 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

trail's got a big animal ahead, it hasn't seen us

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trail · What happens: get, not see · To what, where: big animal, trail

This is test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Thinking about noticing» 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	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
2	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 seen	advmod
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	advcl
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	trail	a big animal				ahead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
2	not see	present · perfect · passive		trail					tree rules

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

Walk closer slowly for a really good photo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Walk	advmod
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 photo	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 photo	det
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 photo	amod
8	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					for a good photo; close, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Back away quietly and go another way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	3 quietly	advmod
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 go	advcl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 quietly	cc
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	another way					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Shout so it runs away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 runs	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	advcl
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 runs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run away	present	it					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Throw food to make it friendly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Throw	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	food					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	food				friendly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=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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