Test 9 · ★ · Bites, stings and things you find on the ground

found a syringe in the grass near the swings

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: find · To what, where: syringe, grass

This is test 9 · ★ 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	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 syringe	det
3	syringe	syringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obl
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 swings	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swings	det
9	swings	swing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		a syringe		the grass		near the swings	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syringe=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 · ✓ the right answer

Don't 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	n't	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

Kick it into the bushes so no one steps on 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	into	into	ADP	_	5 bushes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bushes	det
5	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Kick	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 steps	advmod
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 steps	nsubj
9	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Kick	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 steps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	imperative	you not said here	it				into the bushes result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into bush=Result
2	step	present	no one			it			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

Option 3

Take it home to show mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	home	home	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	advcl
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	show	to-infinitive	you not said here		mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

Option 4

Pick it up n bin it

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	n	n	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct
5	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bin	obj

#	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	bin	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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