Test 7 · ★★ · Hiking and camping safely
A boy keeps a chocolate bar in his tent in a Canadian national park. Why is that a bad idea?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: chocolate bar, tent, bad idea
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 230 «Hiking and camping safely» 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 keeps a chocolate bar in his tent in a Canadian national park.
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 | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bar | det |
| 5 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bar | compound |
| 6 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tent | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tent | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 park | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 park | det |
| 12 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 park | amod |
| 13 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 park | amod |
| 14 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a boy | a chocolate bar | boy's tent | in a Canadian national park | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bar=Theme in tent=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
It will melt overnight
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 melt | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 melt | aux |
| 3 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | 3 melt | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | future | It | overnight property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Bears are drawn by food smells
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drawn | aux:pass |
| 3 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 smells | case |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smells | compound |
| 6 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drawn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present · passive | food smells | Bears | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 3
Rangers will take it away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rangers | ranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | future | Rangers | it | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Chocolate attracts mosquitoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 attracts | nsubj |
| 2 | attracts | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mosquitoes | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 attracts | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | present | Chocolate | mosquitoes | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mosquito=Patient |
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