Test 3 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

Which is the safe way to walk across a classroom with scissors?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: safe way, classroom

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 classroom	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 classroom	det
10	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 scissors	case
12	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walk	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the safe way					tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive				a classroom		with scissors	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across classroom=Trajectory

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

Spinning them on a finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spinning	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 finger	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 finger	det
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spinning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund		them = they		a finger			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Closed, with the points down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 points	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 points	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 points	det
5	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Closed	obl
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 points	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle						with the points	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with point=Theme

Option 3

Points up, near your face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Points	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Points	punct
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 face	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Points	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point up	present				your face			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Open, pointing forward so people see them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pointing	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Open	punct
3	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 pointing	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pointing	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	gerund						forward property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	present	people	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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