Test 13 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

gonna run over to show my mate with the scissors

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: run over, show · To what, where: mate

This is test 13 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 run	dep
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 run	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 run	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mate	nmod:poss
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 scissors	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scissors	det
10	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run over	imperative	you not said here					over property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show	to-infinitive	you not said here	my mate				with the scissors	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient

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

Throw them to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	them = they	him = he				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Destination

Option 2

Run, it's only a few steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 steps	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 steps	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 steps	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 steps	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 steps	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 steps	amod
8	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a few steps					tree rules

Option 3

Run with the points up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 points	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 points	det
4	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Run	obl
5	up	up	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here					with the points	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with point=Material

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

Walk, holding them closed with the points down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 holding	punct
3	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Walk	advcl
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 holding	obj
5	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 holding	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 points	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 points	det
8	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 closed	obl
9	down	down	ADV	_	5 closed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	gerund	you not said here	them = they		tree rules
3	close	participle	you not said here		with the points; down property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with point=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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