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Test 3 · ★★ · Safe at lakes and beaches

A family finds a little cone shell with a lovely pattern in a rock pool in Western Australia. Why should they leave it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, they · What happens: find, leave · To what, where: little cone shell, shell

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 232 «Safe at lakes and beaches» 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 family finds a little cone shell with a lovely pattern in a rock pool in Western Australia.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shell	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shell	amod
6	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shell	compound
7	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 pattern	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pattern	det
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pattern	amod
11	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 pool	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pool	det
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pool	compound
15	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pattern	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 Australia	case
17	Western	Western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Australia	compound
18	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 pool	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	a family	a little cone shell				with a lovely pattern in a rock pool in Western Australia	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=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: Why should they leave it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 leave	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	nsubj
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	should	they	shell					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its sting can kill, even though it looks pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sting	nmod:poss
2	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looks	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	9 looks	advmod
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 looks	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looks	nsubj
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	parataxis
10	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	9 looks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	can	Its sting						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	look	present	sting					pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	sting		Its = it						nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Shells start to smell bad once they are dried out at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 start	nsubj
2	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 smell	mark
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 start	xcomp
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smell	xcomp
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 dried	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dried	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dried	aux:pass
9	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 start	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 dried	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Shells						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	smell	to-infinitive	Shells not said here					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	dry out	present · passive		Shells = shell		home			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 3

It is much too heavy for a child to carry

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	5 heavy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 carry	mark
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for a child; heavy property	tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive							vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is against the rules to take sand

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	5 rules	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rules	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 rules	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rules	det
5	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rules	acl
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					against the rules	tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive		sand					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme

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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