Test 18 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

my mate says if u get super glue on ur fingers u have to rip them apart quick. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, u · What happens: say, get, have, rip · To what, where: super glue, fingers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 get	mark
5	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	super	super	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glue	amod
8	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 fingers	case
10	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fingers	nmod:poss
11	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obl
12	u	u	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rip	mark
15	rip	rip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rip	obj
17	apart	apart	ADV	_	15 rip	advmod
18	quick	quick	ADV	_	15 rip	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
20	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get a condition, not said to happen	present	u	super glue			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glue=Stimulus
3	have	present	u not said here		ur's fingers		tree rules
4	rip	to-infinitive	u not said here	fingers = finger		apart, quick property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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

Yes, then put more glue on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 put	advmod
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 glue	amod
6	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put on	imperative	you not said here	more glue			then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent glue=Goal

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, soak in warm soapy water and roll them apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 soak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	soak	soak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roll	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
6	soapy	soapy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soak	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 roll	cc
9	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 roll	obj
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	9 roll	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	infinitive	soak in warm soapy water	them = they				apart property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent

Option 3

Yes, pull hard and fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 pull	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 pull	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fast	cc
6	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pull	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here					hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, use a knife to cut them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knife	det
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a knife					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
2	cut	to-infinitive	you not said here	them = they					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=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.

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