Test 11 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments

museum has this old vase, no sign, can i touch it just once

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: museum, i · What happens: have, touch · To what, where: old vase, museum

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 vase	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vase	amod
5	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sign	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 sign	det
8	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vase	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 touch	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 touch	aux
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 touch	nsubj
12	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 touch	obj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 once	advmod
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 touch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	museum	this old vase and no sign					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Patient
2	touch	can	i	museum				once property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

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, if there's no sign it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 sign	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 's	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 's	expl
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sign	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 sign	det
7	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	expl
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sign	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		no sign					tree rules
2	is	present						fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, if you hold it with both hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 hold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 hold	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hold	nsubj
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hands	case
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hands	det
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	you	it				with both hands	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, look but don't touch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 look	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 touch	cc
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 touch	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 touch	advmod
7	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 look	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	not touch	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 4

Only if nobody at all is watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	7 watching	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 watching	mark
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 watching	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nobody	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present · progressive	nobody						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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