Test 10 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

hiking in arizona, there's a snake on the path

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake · What happens: hike, be · To what, where: arizona

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» 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	hiking	hike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 's	advcl
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 arizona	case
3	arizona	arizona	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hiking	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 hiking	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snake	det
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 's	nsubj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 path	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 path	det
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hike	gerund	a snake on the path not said here			arizona			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arizona=Trajectory
2	be	present	a snake on the path			there			vn exist-47.1 «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.

The options

Option 1

Jump over it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Jump	obl
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Jump	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	imperative	you not said here			it		quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stop, back away slowly, give it room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 back	punct
3	back	back	ADV	_	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Stop	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Stop	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	obj
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here					away, slowly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	give	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient room=Theme

Option 3

Poke it with a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here	it				with a stick	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with stick=Instrument

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Pick it up and move it off the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 move	cc
5	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 move	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 path	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	move	infinitive	you not said here	it		the path			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme off path=Trajectory

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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