Test 3 · ★ · Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing

Why is a barbed fish hook not pulled out of a finger?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: barb, be, not pull out · To what, where: barbed fish, finger

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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	5 fish	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	barbed	barb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	nsubj:pass
6	hook	hook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pulled	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 pulled	advmod
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 finger	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 finger	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 finger	det
12	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 pulled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	barb	participle			tree rules
2	is a	present	a barbed fish		tree rules
3	not pull out	present · passive	a barbed fish	a finger	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.

The options

Option 1

The fish might want it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 want	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	might	the fish	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 2

It goes in deeper by itself

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 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 deeper	case
4	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 goes	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	It					by itself = it; deep property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 3

It is easier to leave it forever

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	3 easier	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easier	cop
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easier	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	obj
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						easy property	tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive		it				forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The barb tears the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barb	det
2	barb	barb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tears	nsubj
3	tears	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tears	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	present	the barb	the skin					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location skin=Theme

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