Test 16 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

shoes were outside all night in arizona, just put em on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: shoes · What happens: be, put on · To what, where: night, arizona, em

This is test 16 · ★★ 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	5 night	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 night	cop
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 night	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 arizona	case
7	arizona	arizona	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 night	parataxis
11	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	10 put	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	shoes	all night		arizona		outside property	tree rules
2	put on	infinitive		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

Wear them with thick socks instead, so nothing can bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wear	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 socks	case
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 socks	amod
5	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wear	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Wear	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bite	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 bite	advmod
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 bite	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 bite	aux
11	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wear	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	imperative	you not said here	them = they				with thick socks; instead property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
2	bite	can	nothing						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

Shake them out first, a scorpion may be inside

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
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scorpion	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 scorpion	det
7	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shake	parataxis
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 inside	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 inside	cop
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	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
2	is	may						inside property	tree rules

Option 3

Put them on quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Put	compound:prt
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put on	imperative	you not said here	them = they				quickly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

Option 4

Only check if they smell

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	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 smell	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smell	nsubj
5	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 check	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	smell a condition, not said to happen	present	they						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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