Test 14 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites

cast is soooo itchy can i poke a pencil down it

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cast, i · What happens: be, poke · To what, where: pencil

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» 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	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 itchy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 itchy	cop
3	soooo	soooo	ADV	_	4 itchy	advmod
4	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 poke	advcl
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 poke	aux
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 poke	nsubj
7	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pencil	det
9	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poke	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 poke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cast					itchy, soooo property	tree rules
2	poke	can	i	a pencil				down cast	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pencil=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

Yes, a ruler is even better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 better	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ruler	det
4	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 better	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 better	cop
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 better	advmod
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, then wash it out with cold water from the tap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 wash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wash	advmod
4	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wash	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 wash	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wash	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 tap	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tap	det
12	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash out	imperative	you not said here	it		the tap	then	with cold water	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument

Option 3

Yes, if the pencil is clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 clean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 clean	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pencil	det
5	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clean	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 clean	cop
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it can scratch the skin; tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 scratch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scratch	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scratch	aux
5	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scratch	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scratch	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	can	it	the skin					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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