Test 10 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature
apple core's natural, fine to throw it in the grass?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: throw · To what, where: core, grass
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 239 «Litter and caring for nature» 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 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 core | compound |
| 2 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 core | case |
| 4 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 core | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | punct |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 natural | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 throw | mark |
| 8 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fine | csubj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 throw | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 grass | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grass | det |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throw | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 core | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | to-infinitive | core | the grass | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in grass=Destination |
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 if you throw it far
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 throw | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 throw | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 throw | nsubj |
| 4 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 throw | obj |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 throw | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present | you | it | far property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, take it home or bin it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 take | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 bin | cc |
| 7 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bin | 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 | bin | infinitive | you not said here | it | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, animals need the food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 need | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 food | det |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | animals | the food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, it rots in a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 rots | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rots | nsubj |
| 4 | rots | rot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rots | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rot | present | it | day | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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