Test 6 · ★ · Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing
A boy in Scotland catches a fish and holds it in his dry hands for a long photo. What harm can that do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, harm · What happens: catch, hold, do · To what, where: fish, dry hands
This is test 6 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A boy in Scotland catches a fish and holds it in his dry hands for a long photo.
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 | 5 catches | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Scotland | case |
| 4 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 catches | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 holds | cc |
| 9 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 catches | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 holds | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hands | amod |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 holds | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 photo | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 photo | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 photo | amod |
| 18 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holds | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 catches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | a boy in Scotland | a fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | a boy in Scotland not said here | fish | boy's dry hands | for a long photo | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location |
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 harm can that do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 harm | det |
| 2 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | what harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
It makes the fish grow faster
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 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 grow | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | the fish | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
No harm at all, as long as it goes back in the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 harm | det |
| 2 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 harm | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 goes | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 goes | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | present | no harm at all | in the end | long property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It damages the fish's slime coat
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 damages | nsubj |
| 2 | damages | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 fish | case |
| 6 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coat | compound |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 damages | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | damage | present | It | the fish's slime coat | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument coat=Patient |
Option 4
It warms the fish up nicely after the cold river
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 warms | nsubj |
| 2 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 warms | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 warms | compound:prt |
| 6 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 2 warms | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 river | amod |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 warms | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm up | present | It | the fish | after the cold river | nicely property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument fish=Patient |
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