Test 17 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

apparently a kid touched giant hogweed and his whole arm melted off in the sun. what's probably blown up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: touch, melt off, blow up · To what, where: giant hogweed, whole arm, sun.

This is test 17 · ★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 touched	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	nsubj
4	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hogweed	amod
6	hogweed	hogweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 arm	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 arm	nmod:poss
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 arm	amod
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hogweed	conj
11	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 arm	acl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 melted	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 sun.	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun.	det
15	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 melted	obl
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 blown	nsubj:pass
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 blown	aux
18	probably	probably	ADV	_	19 blown	advmod
19	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sun.	acl:relcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 blown	compound:prt
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 touched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	past	a kid	giant hogweed and kid's whole arm		apparently property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hogweed=Co-Theme
2	melt off	participle		kid's whole arm not said here	the sun.		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	blow up	present · passive		the sun.		probably property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=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 sun makes the burns worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 burns	det
5	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	that sun	the burns				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset burn=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That hogweed is a tall plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 hogweed	det
2	hogweed	hogweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plant	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plant	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plant	amod
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that hogweed	a tall plant					tree rules

Option 3

That hogweed has white flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 hogweed	det
2	hogweed	hogweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flowers	amod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	that hogweed	white flowers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Melted off; but its sap really burns skin in sunlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 burns	advcl
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Melted	compound:prt
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 burns	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 burns	cc
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sap	nmod:poss
6	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burns	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 burns	advmod
8	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burns	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 sunlight	case
11	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt off	participle	its sap not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	burn	present	its sap	skin		sunlight			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

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