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Test 6 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

A boy in Cornwall is bitten by an adder on a heath. What should happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: adder · What happens: bite, happen · To what, where: boy

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 boy in Cornwall is bitten by an adder on a heath.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bitten	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Cornwall	case
4	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bitten	aux:pass
6	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 adder	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 adder	det
9	adder	adder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bitten	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 heath	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 heath	det
12	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 adder	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bitten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present · passive	a adder on a heath	a boy in Cornwall					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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: What should happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	should							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

He waits to see if it gets worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waits	nsubj
2	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waits	xcomp
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 gets	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	advcl
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	He						tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	get a condition, not said to happen	present	it					bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He keeps still and calm and is taken to hospital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 keeps	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 calm	cc
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 still	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taken	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 taken	aux:pass
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 keeps	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 hospital	case
10	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	He				still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	present · passive	He not said here					to hospital result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to hospital=Result

Option 3

He walks it off and finishes the hike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walks	nsubj
2	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walks	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 walks	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 finishes	cc
6	finishes	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walks	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hike	det
8	hike	hike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finishes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk off	present	He	it					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
2	finish	present	He not said here	the hike					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality hike=Eventuality

Option 4

He washes it and goes home to bed to sleep it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 washes	nsubj
2	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 washes	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 goes	cc
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 washes	conj
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 goes	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sleep	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 sleep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present	He	it					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	go	present	He not said here			bed		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
3	sleep off	to-infinitive	He not said here	bed					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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