Test 15 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature

broke a glass bottle on the path

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: break · To what, where: glass bottle, path

This is test 15 · ★ 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	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bottle	det
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bottle	compound
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 broke	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 path	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 path	det
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past		a glass bottle		the path			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Patient

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

Kick it into the grass

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 grass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	imperative	you not said here	it				into the grass result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into grass=Result

Option 2

Leave it, someone will sweep it up later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sweep	punct
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 sweep	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sweep	aux
6	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sweep	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 sweep	compound:prt
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 sweep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	sweep up	future	someone	it				late property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

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

Tell an adult and help clean it up safely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 help	cc
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
6	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clean	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 clean	compound:prt
9	safely	safely	ADV	_	6 clean	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	help	infinitive	you not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	clean up	infinitive	you not said here	adult		safely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Pick up every bit with bare hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hands	amod
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	every bit				with bare hands	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic

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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