Test 6 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles
Glitter flies up and lands near a girl's face. Why is this a problem?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Glitter, this · What happens: fly up, land, be · To what, where: face, problem
This is test 6 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: Glitter flies up and lands near a girl's face.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flies | nsubj |
| 2 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 flies | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lands | cc |
| 5 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flies | conj |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lands | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | present | Glitter | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | land | present | Glitter not said here | a girl's face | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Why is this a problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 problem | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 problem | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 problem | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 problem | det |
| 5 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 problem | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | a problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Glitter makes you sneeze colours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | sneeze | sneeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sneeze | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Glitter | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sneeze | infinitive | you not said here | colours | tree rules |
Option 2
Glitter melts on skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 melts | nsubj |
| 2 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 skin | case |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 melts | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | present | Glitter | skin | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Glitter is poisonous to touch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poisonous | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 poisonous | cop |
| 3 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 touch | mark |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 poisonous | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Glitter | poisonous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | Glitter not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Glitter can hurt the eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurt | aux |
| 3 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eyes | det |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | can | Glitter | the eyes | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=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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