Test 15 · Being gentle with small animals

got scratched by the guinea pig, bit of blood

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: guinea pig · What happens: scratch

This is test 15 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	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scratched	aux:pass
2	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 pig	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pig	det
5	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pig	compound
6	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scratched	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bit	punct
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pig	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 blood	case
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past · passive	the guinea pig						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Ignore it, it's tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ignore	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tiny	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	cop
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ignore	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	it					tiny property	tree rules

Option 2

Hide it so the pet isn't blamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 blamed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pet	det
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blamed	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 blamed	aux:pass
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 blamed	advmod
8	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hide	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not blame	present · passive		the pet					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Lick it clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lick	obj
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Lick	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	imperative	you not said here	it				clean property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Wash it, cover it and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wash	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cover	punct
4	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wash	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cover	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wash	conj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 adult	det
9	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	cover	infinitive	you not said here	it		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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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