Test 12 · ★★ · The night sky and outdoor myths

jellyfish sting, my mate says wee on it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jellyfish sting · What happens: say · To what, where: wee, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 240 «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sting	compound
2	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sting	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mate	nmod:poss
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	jellyfish sting	wee		mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wee=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

Yes, and rub sand on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 rub	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rub	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rub	cc
4	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rub	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rub	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	present		sand		sand			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sand=Theme on it=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, wee doesn't help, use local first aid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 help	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 help	advmod
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
8	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	conj
9	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 aid	amod
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 aid	amod
11	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present · do-support	wee						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	use	infinitive	wee not said here	local first aid					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Patient

Option 3

Only if it really really hurts, then it works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 hurts	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 hurts	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hurts	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 hurts	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 hurts	advmod
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 works	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 works	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 works	nsubj
10	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hurts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	it						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	work	present	it				then		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, wee stops the sting straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stops	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sting	det
6	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obj
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	4 stops	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	wee	the sting				away property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sting=Eventuality

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