Test 12 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature

caught some tadpoles, gonna keep em in my room

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: catch, keep · To what, where: tadpoles, em, room

This is test 12 · ★ 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	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 tadpoles	det
3	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 caught	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 keep	dep
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 caught	advcl
7	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 room	nmod:poss
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past		some tadpoles					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tadpole=Theme
2	keep	infinitive		em = they		my room			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in room=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they love jam jars on a sunny windowsill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 love	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 love	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jars	compound
6	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 windowsill	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 windowsill	det
9	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 windowsill	amod
10	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	they	jam jars		a sunny windowsill			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jar=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, feed them bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 feed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feed	obj
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bread=Theme

Option 3

Only for a few weeks till they're frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 weeks	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 weeks	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weeks	amod
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	till	till	ADP	_	9 frogs	case
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 frogs	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 frogs	cop
9	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 weeks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they				till frogs		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, look and put them back in their pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 look	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 look	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pond	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pond	nmod:poss
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	put back	infinitive	you not said here	them = they		their pond			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pond=Destination

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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