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Test 2 · ★★ · Snow, ice and strong sun

A boy in Minnesota has been in the snow for an hour and his fingers are white and numb. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, fingers · What happens: be, do · To what, where: snow, hour

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Minnesota has been in the snow for an hour and his fingers are white and numb.

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	12 hour	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Minnesota	case
4	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hour	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 hour	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 snow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hour	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 hour	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hour	det
12	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fingers	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fingers	nmod:poss
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 white	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 white	cop
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hour	acl:relcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 numb	cc
19	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 white	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	a boy in Minnesota			the snow	for a hour		tree rules
2	is	present	boy's fingers	a hour not said here				white property	tree rules
3	be		boy's fingers not said here						tree rules

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 should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

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

Go in, take off wet things and tell a grown-up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 up	det
11	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 up	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 up	punct
13	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take off	infinitive	you not said here	wet things					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a grown up					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient

Option 2

Keep playing so his hands warm up on their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 warm	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 warm	nsubj
6	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 warm	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	play	gerund	you not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	warm up	present	his hands					on hands's own	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on own=Instrument

Option 3

Rub his hands hard with handfuls of snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rub	obj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Rub	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 handfuls	case
6	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rub	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 snow	case
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handfuls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	imperative	you not said here	his hands				with handfuls of snow; hard property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Destination with handful=Theme

Option 4

Hold them close to a hot fire straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hold	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 fire	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fire	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 close	obl
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	1 Hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	them = they				away, close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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