Test 7 · Caring for pets

What is the kindest way to handle a pet?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kindest way · What happens: be, handle · To what, where: pet

This is test 7 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	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 way	det
4	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 handle	mark
7	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pet	det
9	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handle	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kindest way						tree rules
2	handle	to-infinitive	the kindest way not said here	a pet					vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=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

Chasing it to give it exercise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chasing	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Chasing	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	obj
6	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund		it					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	give	to-infinitive		it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient exercise=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Gently, letting it rest when it wants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gently	gently	ADV	_	3 letting	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gently	punct
3	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rest	nsubj
5	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 letting	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wants	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 letting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	let	gerund		gently property	tree rules
2	rest	infinitive	it		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	want	present	it		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Squeezing it tightly so it cannot escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 escape	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeezing	obj
3	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	1 Squeezing	advmod
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeezing	obl
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 escape	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 escape	advmod
8	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	gerund		it				so it; tightly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not escape	can	Squeezing						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Holding it up high by its legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Holding	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Holding	compound:prt
4	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Holding	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 legs	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 legs	nmod:poss
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	gerund		it				by its legs; high property	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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