Test 14 · ★ · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…

bear on the trail up ahead, run??

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: run

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 287 «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» 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	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 trail	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trail	det
4	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bear	nmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	1 bear	compound:prt
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	1 bear	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 run	punct
8	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bear	conj
9	??	??	PUNCT	_	1 bear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Throw food at it and shout loudly to scare it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shout	cc
6	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Throw	conj
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 shout	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 scare	mark
9	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Throw	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scare	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	9 scare	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	food	food		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent food=Theme at it=Destination
2	shout speech: express	infinitive	you not said here			loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scare off	to-infinitive	you not said here	food			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 2

Yes, run as fast as you can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 run	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 can	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 can	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Climb the nearest small tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
3	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 tree	amod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here	the nearest small tree					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

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

No, stay with adults, speak calmly, back away slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 stay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 speak	punct
7	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	conj
8	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	7 speak	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 away	punct
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 away	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					with adults; away property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with adult=Location
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	you not said here					calmly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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