Test 15 · ★ · Kindness to animals

kids are poking a stray cat with sticks, what do i do

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, i · What happens: poke, do · To what, where: stray cat, sticks

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 207 «Kindness to animals» 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poking	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poking	aux
3	poking	poke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
5	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cat	amod
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poking	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 sticks	case
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sticks	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	present · progressive	kids	a stray cat				with sticks	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent cat=Theme with stick=Instrument
2	do	present · do-support	i	sticks					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Shout at the cat to run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 cat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Shout	advcl

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

Option 2

Join in so they don't pick on you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	1 Join	compound:prt
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 pick	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pick	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pick	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 pick	advmod
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Join	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join in	imperative	you not said here						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	not pick	present · do-support	they					on you	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on you=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult and don't join in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 join	cc
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 join	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 join	advmod
7	join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 join	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	not join in	infinitive · do-support	you not said here						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Ignore it, it's only a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cat	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cat	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cat	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 cat	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ignore	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a cat					tree rules

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