Test 7 · ★★ · Anger and fears
A girl in Sydney finds a big spider in her shoe. What should she do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: find, do · To what, where: big spider, shoe
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 212 «Anger and fears» 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 in Sydney finds a big spider in her shoe.
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 | 5 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spider | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spider | amod |
| 8 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 shoe | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a girl in Sydney | a big spider | girl's shoe | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Topic |
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 do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Not touch it and ask an adult, as some Australian spiders are dangerous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 touch | advmod |
| 2 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 touch | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ask | cc |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 touch | conj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adult | det |
| 7 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dangerous | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 dangerous | mark |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 spiders | det |
| 11 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spiders | amod |
| 12 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dangerous | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dangerous | cop |
| 14 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 touch | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | imperative | you not said here | it | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | a adult | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | some Australian spiders | dangerous property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Pick it up to put it outside herself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pick | obj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Pick | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pick | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | imperative | you not said here | it | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | herself = she obl; outside property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
Option 3
Squash it with her bare hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Squash | squash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Squash | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Squash | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | imperative | you not said here | it | with her bare hand | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hand=Instrument |
Option 4
Put the shoe on carefully
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shoe | det |
| 3 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Put | compound:prt |
| 5 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put on | imperative | you not said here | the shoe | carefully property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoe=Goal |
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