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Test 4 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

A boy in Florida finds a needle on the beach. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: find, do · To what, where: needle, beach

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Florida finds a needle on the beach.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	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	7 needle	det
7	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 beach	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beach	det
10	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	a boy in Florida	a needle		the beach			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=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 he 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Throw it into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	it				into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into sea=Result

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

Leave it and tell an adult at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
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 3

Pick it up with his fingers carefully

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	with	with	ADP	_	6 fingers	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fingers	nmod:poss
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pick	obl
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	1 Pick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it				with his fingers; carefully property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Bury it in the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	imperative	you not said here	it		the sand			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sand=Destination

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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