Test 12 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

shoes were outside all night, just put em on

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: shoes · What happens: be, put on · To what, where: em

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 outside	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 outside	cop
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outside	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 outside	conj
9	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	8 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	shoes				night	outside property	tree rules
2	put on	infinitive	shoes not said here	em = they					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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, just put them 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	just	just	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	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	them = they					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

Option 2

Only check the left one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 check	advmod
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here	the left one					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 3

Check them next week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Check	obj
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 week	amod
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Check	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here	them = they			week		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Shake them out first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shake	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Shake	compound:prt
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Shake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake out	imperative	you not said here	them = they				first property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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