Test 16 · ★ · Bites, stings and things you find on the ground

did u hear an Aussie kid put his shoe on and a spider in it bit him and he went to hospital? real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, Aussie kid, shoe, kid · What happens: hear, put on, bite, go · To what, where: shoe, kid, real lesson, hospital

This is test 16 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 put	advcl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kid	det
5	Aussie	aussie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kid	amod
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shoe	nmod:poss
9	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	7 put	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spider	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 spider	det
13	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	conj
14	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 bit	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bit	nsubj
16	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bit	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bit	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 hospital	case
22	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 lesson	punct
24	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lesson	amod
25	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	put on	past	a Aussie kid	kid's shoe		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoe=Goal
3	bite	past	shoe	kid		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	go	past	kid	real lesson	hospital	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial_Location

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

Only ever wear sandals in Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 wear	advmod
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 wear	advmod
3	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wear	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	imperative	you not said here	sandals		Australia	ever		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sandal=Theme

Option 2

Spiders can't bite through socks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bite	advmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 socks	case
6	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bite	can	Spiders			socks			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through sock=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Shake out shoes before putting them on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Shake	compound:prt
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shake	obj
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 putting	mark
5	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Shake	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 putting	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	5 putting	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake out	imperative	you not said here	shoes					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
2	put on	gerund	you not said here	shoes = shoe					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

Option 4

Spiders only live in trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 trees	case
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Spiders			trees			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

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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