Test 8 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

Why do Australians put a firm bandage over a snake bite and keep the limb still?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Australians · What happens: put, keep · To what, where: firm bandage, snake bite, limb

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	Australians	Australian	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bandage	det
6	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bandage	amod
7	bandage	bandage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 bite	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bite	det
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bite	compound
11	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 keep	cc
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 limb	det
15	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj
16	still	still	ADV	_	13 keep	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · do-support	Australians	a firm bandage		a snake bite			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bandage=Theme over bite=Destination
2	keep	infinitive	Australians not said here	the limb			still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Theme

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

It stops the bite from itching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bite	det
4	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 itching	case
6	itching	itching	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	the bite		itching			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer bite=Beneficiary from itching=Eventuality

Option 2

It squeezes all the venom back out of the bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 squeezes	nsubj
2	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 venom	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 venom	det
5	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeezes	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	2 squeezes	advmod
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 bite	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bite	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bite	det
10	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeezes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	present	It	all venom		the bite			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent venom=Theme out bite=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It slows the venom spreading through the body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slows	nsubj
2	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 venom	det
4	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slows	obj
5	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 venom	acl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 body	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spreading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	present	It	the venom					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent venom=Patient
2	spread	gerund	the venom not said here			the body			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through body=Location

Option 4

It keeps the snake from coming back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 coming	mark
6	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keeps	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the snake					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme
2	come back	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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