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Test 9 · ★ · Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds

A squirrel in a London park takes a crisp from a boy's hand. Why is that a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: squirrel · What happens: take, be · To what, where: crisp, hand, bad idea

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 228 «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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 squirrel in a London park takes a crisp from a boy's hand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 squirrel	det
2	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 takes	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 park	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 park	det
5	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 park	compound
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squirrel	nmod
7	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crisp	det
9	crisp	crisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 takes	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 hand	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hand	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 boy	case
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 takes	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 takes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	a squirrel in a London park	a crisp		a boy's hand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent crisp=Theme from hand=Initial_Location

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: Why is that a bad idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 idea	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a bad idea					tree rules

The options

Option 1

The park keepers will charge him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 keepers	det
2	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keepers	compound
3	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 charge	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 charge	aux
5	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 charge	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	future	the park keepers		him = he				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Squirrels only eat crisps at night, so it will be hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hungry	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 hungry	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hungry	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hungry	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 hungry	cop
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Squirrels	crisps			night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Patient
2	is	future	it					hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

It is good for squirrels to eat salty food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 good	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 good	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 squirrels	case
5	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 good	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 good	advcl
8	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for squirrels; good property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive		salty food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People food is bad for it and it might bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 food	compound
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bad	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bite	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bite	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bite	aux
10	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	People food					for it; bad property	tree rules
2	bite	might	food						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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