Test 2 · ★ · Bites, stings and things you find on the ground

Which is the best rule for strange things found on the ground?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, find · To what, where: best rule, strange things, ground

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 rule	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rule	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 rule	amod
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 things	case
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rule	nmod
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 things	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 rule	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best rule				for strange things	tree rules
2	find	participle		strange things not said here		the ground			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Do not touch it; tell a grown-up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 touch	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 touch	advmod
3	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touch	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 touch	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 up	det
8	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 up	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a grown up					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient

Option 2

Pick it up if it looks clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 looks	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	advcl
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	look a condition, not said to happen	present	it					clean property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Kick it away so nobody else finds it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kick	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Kick	advmod
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 finds	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 finds	nsubj
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 nobody	advmod
7	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Kick	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 finds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick away	imperative	you not said here	it				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	find	present	nobody	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Smell it first to see what it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Smell	obj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Smell	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Smell	advcl
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 see	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 what	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	imperative	you not said here	it	first property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	it			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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