Test 11 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

snake looks dead, can i touch it

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: snake, i · What happens: look, touch · To what, where: snake

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 touch	punct
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 touch	aux
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 touch	nsubj
7	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looks	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	snake					dead property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	touch	can	i	snake					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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

Yes, by the tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 tail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tail	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tail	det
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it can still bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bite	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bite	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 bite	advmod
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	can	it				still		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, dead snakes are safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 safe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snakes	amod
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 safe	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	dead snakes					safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, with a glove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 glove	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 glove	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 glove	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 glove	det
5	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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