Test 4 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground
A bee lands on a girl's sleeve in the Texas sunshine. What is the wisest thing for her to do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bee, wisest thing · What happens: land, be, do · To what, where: sleeve
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A bee lands on a girl's sleeve in the Texas sunshine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bee | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lands | nsubj |
| 3 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sleeve | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 8 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lands | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sunshine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sunshine | det |
| 11 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sunshine | compound |
| 12 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleeve | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | present | a bee | a girl's sleeve in the Texas sunshine | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sleeve=Destination |
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 is the wisest thing for her to do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wisest thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | bee | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Squash it with a book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Squash | squash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Squash | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 book | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Squash | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | imperative | you not said here | it | with a book | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with book=Instrument |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Stay calm and let it fly away or move slowly
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 let | cc |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 fly | advmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 move | cc |
| 9 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | conj |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 move | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | calm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly away | infinitive | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | move | infinitive | you not said here | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Slap it quickly before it has time to sting her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slap | slap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Slap | obj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Slap | advmod |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 has | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slap | advcl |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sting | mark |
| 9 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slap | imperative | you not said here | it | quickly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | it | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sting | to-infinitive | her = she | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
Option 4
Shake her arm wildly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 arm | nmod:poss |
| 3 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shake | obj |
| 4 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 1 Shake | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | her arm | wildly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
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