Test 15 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

brother got bit by a snake in the garden!!

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: get · To what, where: bit, garden

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 snake	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
10	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	brother	bit		the garden		by a snake	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice

Make him run to the car fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 car	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	run	infinitive	him = he not said here			the car		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to car=Destination

Option 2

Suck the bite to get the venom out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suck	suck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bite	det
3	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Suck	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suck	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 venom	det
7	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	imperative	you not said here	the bite					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bite=Source
2	get out	to-infinitive	you not said here	the venom					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Keep him still and calm, call emergency services

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	still	still	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 calm	cc
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 still	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
8	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 services	compound
9	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	him = he			still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	call	infinitive	you not said here	emergency services					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Recipient

Option 4

Cut the bite and wash it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bite	det
3	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cut	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wash	cc
5	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cut	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	the bite					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bite=Product
2	wash	infinitive	you not said here	bite					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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