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Test 1 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

A boy in Leeds runs across the art room holding open scissors with the points up. What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: run, hold up, happen · To what, where: art room, open scissors

This is test 1 of lesson 245 «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Leeds runs across the art room holding open scissors with the points up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 runs	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	compound
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 runs	obl
10	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 runs	advcl
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 scissors	amod
12	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 holding	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 points	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 points	det
15	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 holding	obl
16	up	up	ADP	_	10 holding	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 runs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	a boy in Leeds			the art room			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across room=Trajectory
2	hold up	gerund	a boy in Leeds not said here	open scissors				with the points	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme with point=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.

Sentence 2: What could happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Nothing, because child scissors can never hurt anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 hurt	mark
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scissors	compound
5	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurt	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 hurt	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	can	child scissors	anyone		all			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He could trip and stab himself or someone else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trip	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trip	aux
3	trip	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stab	cc
5	stab	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trip	conj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 stab	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 someone	cc
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 trip	conj
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 someone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	could	He						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stab	infinitive	He not said here	himself = he					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

Option 3

His teacher would give him a prize for being so quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 prize	det
7	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 quick	case
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 quick	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 quick	advmod
11	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	His teacher	a prize	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient prize=Theme
2	is	gerund						quick property	tree rules

Option 4

The scissors would become blunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scissors	det
2	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the scissors					blunt property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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