Test 11 · Caring for pets

nan brought lilies, cat's sniffing em

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan · What happens: bring · To what, where: lilies

This is test 11 of lesson 27 «Caring for pets» 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	nan	nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 em	punct
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sniffing	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 cat	case
7	sniffing	sniffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 em	compound
8	em	em	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	nan	lilies					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lily=Theme

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

It's fine, cats love flowers

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	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 love	punct
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 love	nsubj
6	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	love	present	cats	flowers					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus

Option 2

Only the stems are bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 stems	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stems	det
3	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bad	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Only the leaves are bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 leaves	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 leaves	det
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bad	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Keep them away, lilies poison cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 poison	punct
5	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 poison	nsubj
6	poison	poison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 poison	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	imperative	you not said here	them = they				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	poison	present	lilies	cats					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient

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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