Test 6 · ★★ · First aid, medicine and the sun
A boy in Ireland spills hot tea on his hand. How long should it be under cool running water?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, tea · What happens: spill, run, be · To what, where: hot tea, hand, cool running water
This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 210 «First aid, medicine and the sun» 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 boy in Ireland spills hot tea on his hand.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spills | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | spills | spill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tea | amod |
| 7 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spills | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spills | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spills | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spill | present | a boy in Ireland | hot tea | boy's hand | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=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: How long should it be under cool running water?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 water | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 water | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 water | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 water | cop |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 water | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | should | tea | cool running water | long property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
About 5 seconds only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 5 | advmod |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 seconds | nummod |
| 3 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 seconds | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 20 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 20 | advmod |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
No water, just a cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cloth | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 cloth | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 water | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 1 minute or so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1 | advmod |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 minute | nummod |
| 3 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 so | cc |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 minute | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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