Test 9 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

plant w 3 shiny leaves on the trail, can i pick it

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plant · What happens: pick · To what, where: trail

This is test 9 · ★ 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	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pick	nsubj
2	w	w	ADV	PronType=Int	5 leaves	advmod
3	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 leaves	nummod
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leaves	amod
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 plant	appos
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 trail	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trail	det
8	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 plant	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pick	aux
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 pick	nsubj
12	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	can	plant	trail					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

No, leaves of three, let it be

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 leaves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 let	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 three	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 leaves	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 leaves	punct
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	leaves of three	it					tree rules
2	be	infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only the small ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ones	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ones	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if you wash your hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 wash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wash	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wash	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wash	nsubj
5	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present	you	your hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 4

Yes, three leaves means it's clover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leaves	nummod
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clover	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 clover	cop
8	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	three leaves						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	clover					tree rules

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