Test 11 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

lil sis ate a berry off the bush!!

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lil sis · What happens: eat · To what, where: berry

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» 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	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sis	amod
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 berry	det
5	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 bush	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bush	det
8	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obl
9	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	lil sis	a berry				off the bush	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=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

Wait n see if she's ok first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	n	n	X	_	1 Wait	dep
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 ok	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ok	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ok	cop
7	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 see	ccomp
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	she	ok property	tree rules

Option 2

Give her lots of sweets to take the taste away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sweets	case
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 taste	det
9	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	lots of sweets	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lot=Theme
2	take away	to-infinitive	you not said here	the taste				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell a grown-up now and keep a berry to show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 grown	det
3	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 grown	compound
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Tell	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 keep	cc
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 berry	det
10	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 show	mark
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a grown	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	a berry		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme
3	show	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Make her eat another one to check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 check	mark
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 one	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	her = she	tree rules
2	eat	infinitive	her = she not said here	another one	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	check	to-infinitive	her = she not said here	another one not said here	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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