Test 8 · ★★ · Building and making things safely
Why should a splinter not be left in your skin for days?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: not leave · To what, where: splinter, skin
This is test 8 · ★★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 left | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 splinter | det |
| 4 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 left | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 left | aux:pass |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 skin | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 skin | nmod:poss |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | should · passive | a splinter | your skin | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in skin=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 · ✓ the right answer
It can get infected
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | infected | infected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | It | infected property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
It makes your hand smell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 smell | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smell | compound |
| 5 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | your hand smell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material smell=Product | ||||
| 2 | smell | your | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
It will grow into a thorn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grow | aux |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 thorn | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thorn | det |
| 6 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | future | It | into a thorn result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into thorn=Result |
Option 4
It turns into wood under your skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 wood | case |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 skin | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 skin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | It | wood | under your skin | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wood=Source under skin=Trajectory |
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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