Test 15 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

touched a weird plant, my hand's red and itchy

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: hand · What happens: touch, be · To what, where: weird plant

This is test 15 · ★ 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	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plant	det
3	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plant	amod
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 touched	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 red	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 red	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 red	cop
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 touched	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 itchy	cc
11	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 red	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	past		a weird plant		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plant=Co-Theme
2	is	present	my hand		red property	tree rules
3	be		my hand 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.

The options

Option 1

Ignore it, it's only a rash, it'll go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rash	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rash	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rash	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 rash	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rash	det
8	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ignore	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ignore	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a rash	tree rules
3	go	future	rash		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Rub it off on your face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rub	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Rub	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 face	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rub	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub off	imperative	you not said here	it		your face			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on face=Destination

Option 3

Scratch it hard until it stops itching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Scratch	obj
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Scratch	xcomp
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 stops	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stops	nsubj
6	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Scratch	advcl
7	itching	itch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scratch	imperative	you not said here	it	hard property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	stop	present	it			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	itch	gerund				vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wash it with soap and water and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wash	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 soap	case
4	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 water	cc
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soap	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wash	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it				with soap and water	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with soap=Instrument
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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