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Test 2 · ★★ · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

A girl in Florida sees an alligator lying still on a canal bank. Which is safest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, alligator · What happens: see, lie, be · To what, where: alligator, canal bank

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Florida sees an alligator lying still on a canal bank.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 alligator	det
7	alligator	alligator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	obj
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 alligator	acl
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 lying	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 bank	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bank	det
12	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bank	compound
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a girl in Florida	a alligator					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer alligator=Stimulus
2	lie	gerund	a alligator not said here			a canal bank	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=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: Which is safest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 safest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safest	cop
3	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 safest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						safe property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stay far back and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 back	advmod
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 2

Throw it some bread to keep it happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Throw	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	it					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination bread=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here	bread				happy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Poke it with a stick to see if it is alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poke	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Poke	advcl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 alive	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 alive	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 alive	cop
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here	it				with a stick	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with stick=Instrument
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	stick					alive property	tree rules

Option 4

Walk past it closely, it is asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	past	past	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Walk	obl
4	closely	closely	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asleep	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asleep	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asleep	cop
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Walk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here			it		closely property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past it=Trajectory
2	is	present	it					asleep 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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