Test 17 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

apparently a girl tripped running with scissors and they went right into her leg. what's the true lesson?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, scissors, true lesson · What happens: trip, run, go, be · To what, where: leg

This is test 17 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 tripped	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tripped	nsubj
4	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 tripped	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 scissors	case
7	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 running	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tripped	conj
11	right	right	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 leg	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 leg	nmod:poss
14	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tripped	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tripped	parataxis
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lesson	det
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lesson	amod
20	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tripped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	trip	past	a girl		apparently property	tree rules
2	run	gerund	a girl not said here		with scissors	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with scissors=Material
3	go	past	scissors	girl's leg	right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into leg=Initial_Location
4	is a	present	the true lesson			tree rules

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

Only the big scissors are dangerous, not school ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 dangerous	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scissors	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scissors	amod
4	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dangerous	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ones	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 ones	advmod
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ones	compound
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the big scissors					school ones obl; dangerous property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Run with scissors closed and it's totally fine

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	_	3 scissors	case
3	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Run	obl
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Run	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fine	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	expl
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
8	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Run	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here	with scissors	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	close	participle	you not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	you not said here	fine, totally property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Walk with scissors, points down, never run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 scissors	case
3	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Walk	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 points	punct
5	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scissors	conj
6	down	down	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 run	advmod
9	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					with scissors and points; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not run	infinitive	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Carry them with the points up instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carry	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 points	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 points	det
5	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Carry	obl
6	up	up	ADP	_	1 Carry	compound:prt
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry up	imperative	you not said here	them = they				with the points; instead property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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