Test 15 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

something's stuck in my ear, gonna get it out with a pencil

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: something · What happens: be, get out · To what, where: ear

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 stuck	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stuck	cop
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ear	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ear	nmod:poss
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
8	gonna	gonna	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stuck	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 get	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 pencil	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pencil	det
14	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	something			my ear		stuck property	tree rules
2	get out	infinitive		ear				with a pencil	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, you could hurt your eardrum, tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 hurt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eardrum	nmod:poss
7	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurt	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	could	you	your eardrum					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eardrum=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 2

Use a hairgrip instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hairgrip	det
3	hairgrip	hairgrip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a hairgrip				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hairgrip=Patient

Option 3

Yes, carefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 carefully	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Shake your head hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shake	obj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Shake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	your head				hard property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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