Test 7 · ★ · Kindness to animals

Which helps wild animals on a beach in New Zealand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: help · To what, where: wild animals, beach

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helps	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 beach	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Zealand	case
9	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Zealand	flat
10	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 beach	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present			wild animals	a beach in New Zealand			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary

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

Chasing birds so they fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chasing	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fly	nsubj
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Chasing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund		birds					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	fly	present	birds = bird						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Leaving bags on the sand for later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leaving	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 sand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sand	det
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 later	case
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		bags		the sand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on sand=Location

Option 3

Leaving your food scraps out for the hungry birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 scraps	csubj
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 food	nmod:poss
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
4	scraps	scrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 scraps	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 birds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scraps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		your food					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	scrap out	present	Leaving					for the hungry birds	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Taking your litter home or putting it in a bin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 litter	nmod:poss
3	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	1 Taking	advmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 putting	cc
6	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Taking	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 putting	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bin	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bin	det
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 putting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		your litter				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Theme
2	put	gerund		litter		a bin			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bin=Destination

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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