Test 18 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

apparently a kid swatted a wasp at lunch and got stung like 20 times. what's the true lesson?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: swat, sting, be · To what, where: wasp, lunch, true lesson

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 swatted	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swatted	nsubj
4	swatted	swat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wasp	det
6	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swatted	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 lunch	case
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wasp	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stung	cc
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stung	aux:pass
11	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 swatted	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 times	case
13	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stung	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swatted	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 lesson	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 lesson	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lesson	det
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lesson	amod
20	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swatted	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 swatted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swat	past	a kid	a wasp	lunch		apparently property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wasp=Patient at lunch=Location
2	sting	past · passive	a kid not said here			time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	is a	present		the true lesson				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 right answer

Stay calm and move away slowly, don't swat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 move	cc
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 move	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 move	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swat	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 swat	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 swat	advmod
10	swat	swat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here	calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move away	infinitive	you not said here	away, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	not swat	infinitive · do-support	you not said here		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Wave your arms to scare it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arms	nmod:poss
3	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wave	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 scare	mark
5	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wave	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scare	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 scare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	imperative	you not said here	your arms					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	scare away	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 3

Throw your lunch at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lunch	nmod:poss
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	your lunch		lunch			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme at it=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Swat hard so it dies before it stings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swat	swat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Swat	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 dies	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dies	nsubj
5	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Swat	advcl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 stings	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stings	nsubj
8	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dies	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	swat	imperative	you not said here	hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	die	present	it		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	sting	present	it		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/t18/