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Test 4 · ★ · Kindness to animals

A girl drops her hamster because she held it high with one hand. What should she have done?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: drop, hold, do · To what, where: hamster

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl drops her hamster because she held it high with one hand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	nsubj
3	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hamster	nmod:poss
5	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 held	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 held	nsubj
8	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drops	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 held	obj
10	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 held	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hand	nummod
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 held	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	a girl	girl's hamster					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Theme
2	hold	past	girl	hamster				with one hand; high property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 should she have done?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 done	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should · perfect	girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Only held it while standing up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 held	advmod
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 standing	mark
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 held	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 standing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past		it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	stand up	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Held it gently with both hands, low and close to her body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Held	obj
3	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Held	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hands	det
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Held	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 low	punct
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hands	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 close	cc
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 low	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 body	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 body	nmod:poss
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past		it				with both hands; gently property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Squeezed it tightly so it could not move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeezed	obj
3	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	1 Squeezed	advmod
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 move	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 move	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 move	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 move	advmod
8	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Squeezed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	past		it				tightly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not move	could	it						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Held it by its tail with one hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Held	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Held	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hand	nummod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle		it				by its tail; with one hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by tail=Location

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