Test 13 · ★★ · Wild animals: keep away, never feed
moose with a baby by the road, get closer for a pic?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moose · What happens: get
This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» 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 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 baby | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 moose | nmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 baby | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 get | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 pic | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pic | det |
| 13 | pic | pic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 closer | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | infinitive | moose with a baby by the road | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Yes, moose are gentle, they only eat plants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 gentle | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gentle | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gentle | cop |
| 5 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 eat | advmod |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gentle | conj |
| 10 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | moose | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | they | plants | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient |
Option 2
Yes, give the calf some bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 give | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 calf | det |
| 5 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 bread | det |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | some bread | the calf | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent calf=Recipient bread=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, if you're quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 quiet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 quiet | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 quiet | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quiet | cop |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | quiet property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, mums with calves are dangerous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 mums | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | mums | mum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dangerous | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 calves | case |
| 5 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mums | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dangerous | cop |
| 7 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | mums with calves | dangerous property | tree rules |
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.
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