Test 14 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles
Why must you not pull apart fingers stuck with super glue?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: not pull apart, stick · To what, where: fingers
This is test 14 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 pull | advmod |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pull | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pull | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pull | advmod |
| 5 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 5 pull | advmod |
| 7 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pull | obj |
| 8 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fingers | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 glue | case |
| 10 | super | super | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 glue | amod |
| 11 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pull | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pull apart | must | you | fingers | apart property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | |||
| 2 | stick | participle | fingers not said here | with super glue | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with glue=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
The fingers stay stuck forever anyway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fingers | det |
| 2 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stay | xcomp |
| 5 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 stay | advmod |
| 6 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 3 stay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | the fingers | anyway, forever, stuck property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The glue spreads to your face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 glue | det |
| 2 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreads | nsubj |
| 3 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreads | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | the glue | to your face | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
You can tear the skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tear | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tear | aux |
| 3 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tear | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | can | You | the skin | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location skin=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
It makes the glue stronger
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 glue | det |
| 4 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | the glue | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material glue=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/t14/