Test 6 · ★ · Running games and the playground
Why can a scarf be dangerous on a slide or climbing frame?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: scarf · What happens: be · To what, where: slide
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 247 «Running games and the playground» 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 | 6 dangerous | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 dangerous | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 scarf | det |
| 4 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dangerous | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dangerous | cop |
| 6 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 slide | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slide | det |
| 9 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dangerous | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 frame | cc |
| 11 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 frame | compound |
| 12 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slide | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 dangerous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | a scarf | a slide or climbing frame | dangerous property | 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
It keeps you too warm
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 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 keeps | obj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 warm | advmod |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | It | you | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It can catch and strangle you
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 | 3 catch | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 catch | aux |
| 3 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 strangle | cc |
| 5 | strangle | strangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 catch | conj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 strangle | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | can | It | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strangle | infinitive | you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
Option 3
It makes you slide too slowly
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 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | slide | slide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 slowly | advmod |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 slide | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slide | infinitive | you not said here | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It gets dirty
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 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | It | dirty property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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