Test 14 · ★ · Bites, stings and things you find on the ground

Why should Tom not pick up the shiny metal thing he found on the beach?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: not pick up, find · To what, where: shiny metal thing, beach

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 238 «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pick	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pick	aux
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pick	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pick	advmod
5	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 pick	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
9	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pick	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 beach	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beach	det
15	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pick up	should	Tom	the shiny metal thing					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	find	past	Tom	the shiny metal thing not said here		the beach			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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 · ← Mova's choice

It is too heavy to carry all the way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heavy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 carry	mark
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heavy	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj
10	home	home	ADV	_	6 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					heavy property	tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive		all way				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It might be sharp or dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sharp	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sharp	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sharp	cop
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 dangerous	cc
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sharp	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	It					sharp property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

It might rust all over his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rust	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rust	aux
3	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 hands	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rust	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rust	might	It			his hands			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It is bad luck to keep things from the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 luck	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 luck	cop
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 luck	amod
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 luck	acl
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 beach	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beach	det
10	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	bad luck					tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive		things		the beach			vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer thing=Beneficiary from beach=Eventuality

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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