Test 16 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

found an old drink bottle in the shed with blue stuff in it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find · To what, where: old drink bottle, shed

This is test 16 · ★ 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	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bottle	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bottle	amod
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bottle	compound
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 shed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shed	det
8	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 stuff	case
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stuff	amod
11	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stuff	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		a old drink bottle		the shed		with blue stuff in stuff	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pour it on the plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pour	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 plants	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plants	det
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	it		the plants			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Taste a drop to check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drop	det
3	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taste	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 check	mark
5	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	imperative	you not said here	a drop					tree rules
2	check	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Take it to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it		school			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to school=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Don't drink or sniff it, tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 drink	advmod
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 sniff	cc
5	sniff	sniff	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sniff	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not drink	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sniff	infinitive	you not said here	it		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	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

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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