Test 12 · Being gentle with small animals

why sit on the floor holding the kitten

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: sit, hold · To what, where: floor, kitten

This is test 12 of lesson 288 «Being gentle with small 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 sit	advmod
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sit	obl
6	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sit	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kitten	det
8	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here			the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
2	hold	gerund	you not said here	the kitten					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=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

Kittens like being near the ground, it's warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 warmer	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	6 ground	case
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ground	cop
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kittens	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kittens	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 warmer	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 warmer	cop
10	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						like the ground	tree rules
2	is	present	Kittens					warm property	tree rules

Option 2

So it can't see you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	it	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So it can't fall far if it wriggles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 fall	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fall	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fall	advmod
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fall	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 wriggles	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wriggles	nsubj
9	wriggles	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall	can	it					far property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wriggle a condition, not said to happen	present	it						vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It's easier to stroke it there

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 easier	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easier	cop
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stroke	mark
5	stroke	stroke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easier	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stroke	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stroke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						easy property	tree rules
2	stroke	to-infinitive		it		there			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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