Test 13 · Being gentle with small animals

hamster keeps wriggling so im holding it tighter

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hamster · What happens: keep, wriggle, hold · To what, where: hamster

This is test 13 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	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 im	advmod
5	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
6	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keeps	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 holding	obj
8	tighter	tight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 holding	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	hamster		im property	tree rules
2	wriggle	gerund	hamster not said here			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold	gerund	hamster not said here	hamster	tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

Loosen up and sit on the floor, squeezing can hurt it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loosen	loosen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Loosen	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sit	cc
4	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Loosen	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 squeezing	punct
9	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hurt	csubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hurt	aux
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Loosen	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	loosen up	imperative	you not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sit	present	you not said here		the floor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
3	squeeze	gerund				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	hurt	can	squeezing	floor		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hold it by the tail instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tail	det
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it				by the tail; instead property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by tail=Location

Option 3

Shake it gently to calm it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shake	obj
3	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Shake	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 calm	mark
5	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Shake	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	it				gently property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	calm	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 4

Hold it tighter and tighter so it can't escape your hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	tighter	tight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Hold	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tighter	cc
5	tighter	tight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 tighter	conj
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 escape	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 escape	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 escape	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 escape	advmod
10	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hold	advcl
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 escape	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it				tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not escape	can	it	your hands					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Initial_Location

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