Test 7 · ★★ · Safe at lakes and beaches
A girl wants to keep a crab from a rock pool in her bucket all afternoon. Why is that unkind?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, that · What happens: want, keep, be · To what, where: crab, rock pool
This is test 7 · ★★ 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 girl wants to keep a crab from a rock pool in her bucket all afternoon.
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 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crab | det |
| 7 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 pool | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pool | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pool | compound |
| 11 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bucket | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bucket | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 afternoon | det |
| 16 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | a girl not said here | a crab | a rock pool | afternoon | in girl's bucket | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crab=Theme in bucket=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 unkind?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 unkind | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unkind | cop |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 unkind | nsubj |
| 4 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 unkind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | unkind property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Crabs do not like the colour of buckets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 colour | det |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 like | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 buckets | case |
| 8 | buckets | bucket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 colour | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · do-support | Crabs | the colour of buckets | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It can die out of its home water
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 die | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | aux |
| 3 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 water | nmod:poss |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | compound |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 die | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die out | can | It | its home water | tree rules |
Option 3
Crabs will escape and bite her later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 escape | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 escape | aux |
| 3 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bite | cc |
| 5 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 escape | conj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 later | nmod:poss |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 bite | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | future | Crabs | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bite | infinitive | Crabs not said here | late property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Keeping it is fine if she adds sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 fine | csubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keeping | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 adds | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 adds | nsubj |
| 7 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | advcl |
| 8 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adds | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Keeping | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | she | sand | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Patient |
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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