Test 5 · ★ · Kindness to animals
Your dad throws away a six-pack ring without cutting it. What do you kindly suggest?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, you · What happens: throw away, cut, suggest · To what, where: pack ring, ring
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Your dad throws away a six-pack ring without cutting it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throws | nsubj |
| 3 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 throws | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pack | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 six | punct |
| 8 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ring | compound |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throws | obj |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 cutting | mark |
| 11 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 throws | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cutting | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 throws | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | present | Your dad | a pack ring | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | |||
| 2 | cut | gerund | Your dad not said here | ring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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 do you kindly suggest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 suggest | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 suggest | nsubj |
| 4 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 5 suggest | advmod |
| 5 | suggest | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present · do-support | you | kindly property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Burn it in the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Burn | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Burn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | imperative | you not said here | it | the garden | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
Throw it in the river instead, where it washes away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Throw | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 river | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throw | obl |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Throw | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 washes | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 washes | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 washes | nsubj |
| 10 | washes | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Throw | advcl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 washes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | imperative | you not said here | it | the river | instead property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in river=Destination | ||
| 2 | wash away | present | river | away property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cut the rings so no animal gets trapped
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rings | det |
| 3 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cut | obj |
| 4 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 trapped | mark |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 animal | det |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trapped | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 trapped | aux:pass |
| 8 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cut | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | imperative | you not said here | the rings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product | ||||
| 2 | trap | present · passive | no animal | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
Keep it as a toy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 toy | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 toy | det |
| 5 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | it | as a toy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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