Test 19 · ★★ · Snow, ice and strong sun

my cousin says if u eat yellow snow u die instantly lol. probably blown up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, u · What happens: say, eat, die, blow up · To what, where: yellow snow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ of lesson 234 «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 eat	mark
5	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snow	amod
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	u	u	PART	_	10 die	mark
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eat	advcl
11	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	10 die	advmod
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 eat	discourse
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
14	probably	probably	ADV	_	15 blown	advmod
15	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 blown	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	present	u	yellow snow		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient
3	die	infinitive	u not said here		instantly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	blow up	participle			probably property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

That snow can be dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dirty	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 dirty	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 dirty	cop
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	that snow					dirty property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Instantly; but don't eat yellow or dirty snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 eat	cc
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 snow	amod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 dirty	cc
9	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 yellow	conj
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	imperative · do-support	you not said here	yellow snow				instantly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient

Option 3

That snow is frozen water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 frozen	aux:pass
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		that snow					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That yellow snow can be animal pee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 snow	det
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snow	amod
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pee	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pee	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 pee	cop
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pee	compound
7	pee	pee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	that yellow snow	animal pee					tree rules

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