Test 9 · ★ · Safe and kind in gardens and forests
A girl wants to eat a tomato straight from her grandad's vegetable patch. What is wise?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: want, eat, be · To what, where: tomato, vegetable patch
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 229 «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» 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 girl wants to eat a tomato straight from her grandad's vegetable patch.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 eat | mark |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tomato | det |
| 7 | tomato | tomato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 patch | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 patch | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 11 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 patch | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 grandad | case |
| 13 | vegetable | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 patch | compound |
| 14 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a girl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | a girl not said here | a tomato | girl's grandad's vegetable patch | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomato=Patient |
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 is wise?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wise | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wise | cop |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wise property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Wipe it on the grass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wipe | wipe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Wipe | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 grass | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grass | det |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wipe | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe | imperative | you not said here | it | the grass | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme on grass=Trajectory |
Option 2
Eat it at once while it is warm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Eat | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Eat | obl |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 warm | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 warm | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 warm | cop |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Eat | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | it | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | warm property | tree rules |
Option 3
Only eat it if it is very red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 eat | advmod |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 eat | obj |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 red | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 red | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 red | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 red | advmod |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 eat | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | it | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | it | red property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ask Grandad and wash it first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wash | cc |
| 4 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wash | obj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 wash | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | Grandad | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandad=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | wash | infinitive | you not said here | it | first property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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