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Test 2 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

A girl in Queensland sees a brown snake cross her garden path. Which plan is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, plan · What happens: see, be · To what, where: brown snake cross

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Queensland sees a brown snake cross her garden path.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Queensland	case
4	Queensland	Queensland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cross	det
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cross	amod
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cross	compound
9	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	obj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 path	nmod:poss
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 path	compound
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a girl in Queensland	a brown snake cross					tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: Which plan is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 best	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 best	cop
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which plan					good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Try to catch it in a bucket and take it far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 catch	mark
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Try	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bucket	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bucket	det
7	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	obj
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	9 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it		a bucket			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	take	infinitive	you not said here	bucket				away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Chase it away with a broom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chase	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Chase	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 broom	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 broom	det
6	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chase	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase away	imperative	you not said here	it				with a broom; away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Stay back, let it move on and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 move	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay back	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	it					tree rules
3	move on	infinitive							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4

Step over it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Step	nmod
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Step	advmod

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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