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Test 2 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

A friend in Virginia wants to make a necklace from a vine with three shiny leaves on each stem. What do you say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, you · What happens: want, make, say · To what, where: necklace, vine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A friend in Virginia wants to make a necklace from a vine with three shiny leaves on each stem.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Virginia	case
4	Virginia	Virginia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 friend	nmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 necklace	det
9	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 vine	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 vine	det
12	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 leaves	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 leaves	nummod
15	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 leaves	amod
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 stem	case
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 stem	det
19	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leaves	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a friend in Virginia						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	a friend in Virginia not said here	a necklace		a vine		with three shiny leaves on each stem	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset necklace=Product from vine=Material

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 do you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Only touch it if the leaves are red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 touch	advmod
2	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touch	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 red	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leaves	det
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 red	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 red	cop
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 touch	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	imperative	you not said here	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the leaves					red property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Wash it first and then it is fine

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	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Wash	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fine	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fine	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fine	expl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wash	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it				first property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	present	you not said here				then	fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Let it be; it may be poison ivy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 ivy	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ivy	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 ivy	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 ivy	cop
8	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ivy	compound
9	ivy	ivy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	be	infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	may	it	poison ivy					tree rules

Option 4

Go ahead, three-leaf plants are always safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 safe	punct
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 leaf	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 three	punct
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plants	compound
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 safe	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 safe	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 safe	advmod
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Go	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					ahead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	leaf plants					always, safe property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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