Test 11 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

parcel came, gonna open it with dads craft knife

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parcel, dads · What happens: come, open, craft · To what, where: parcel, knife

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct
4	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 open	dep
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 open	obj
7	with	with	SCONJ	_	9 craft	mark
8	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 craft	nsubj
9	craft	craft	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 open	advcl
10	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 craft	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	parcel		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	infinitive	parcel not said here	parcel	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	craft	present	dads	knife	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Result

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

Yes, use it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 use	obj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 use	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Let a grown-up open it, the blade slips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 grown	det
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Let	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 grown	compound:prt
6	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 open	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slips	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blade	det
10	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slips	nsubj
11	slips	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	grow up	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	open	infinitive	you not said here	it	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	slip	present	the blade		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Yes, cut towards you so you can see it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cut	obl
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here					towards you	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards you=Location
2	see	can	you	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Use dad's razor 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	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 razor	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dad	case
4	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
5	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	dad's razor				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent razor=Patient

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