Test 10 · ★★ · Building and making things safely

got a splinter, gonna dig it out with a pin

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: splinter · What happens: get, dig out · To what, where: splinter

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 244 «Building and making things safely» 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	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 splinter	det
3	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 got	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dig	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 dig	dep
6	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 splinter	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dig	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 dig	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 pin	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pin	det
11	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		a splinter					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splinter=Stimulus
2	dig out	infinitive	a splinter not said here	splinter				with a pin	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with pin=Instrument

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

Leave it in, it falls out by itself

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	in	in	ADP	_	1 Leave	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 falls	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 falls	nsubj
6	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	parataxis
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 falls	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 itself	case
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave in	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fall out	present	it					by itself = it	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 2

Squeeze it hard with your dirty fingers till it pops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeeze	obj
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Squeeze	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 fingers	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fingers	nmod:poss
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fingers	amod
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Squeeze	obl
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 pops	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pops	nsubj
10	pops	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Squeeze	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	it				with your dirty fingers; hard property	vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument
2	pop	present	it						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Bite it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bite	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Bite	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite out	imperative	you not said here	it					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ask an adult to take it out with clean tweezers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	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 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 take	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 tweezers	case
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tweezers	amod
10	tweezers	tweezer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take out not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	adult				with clean tweezers	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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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