Test 3 · Being gentle with small animals
Your friend's mouse is on your hand and starts to wriggle. What should you do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse, you · What happens: be, start, wriggle, do · To what, where: hand
This is test 3 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
Sentence 1: Your friend's mouse is on your hand and starts to wriggle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mouse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 friend | case |
| 4 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hand | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 starts | cc |
| 10 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hand | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 wriggle | mark |
| 12 | wriggle | wriggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 starts | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your friend's mouse | your hand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | present | Your friend's mouse not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | wriggle | to-infinitive | Your friend's mouse not said here | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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.
Sentence 2: What should you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Shake your hand to calm it down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hand | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shake | obj |
| 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 |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 calm | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | your hand | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | calm down | to-infinitive | you not said here | hand | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
Lift it higher in the air so it cannot jump off your hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Lift | obj |
| 3 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Lift | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lift | obl |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 11 jump | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 jump | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 jump | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 jump | advmod |
| 11 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Lift | advcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 jump | compound:prt |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jump | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | imperative | you not said here | it | the air | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in air=Destination | |||
| 2 | not jump off | can | air | your hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hand=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Lower your hands close to the floor and stay calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lower | lower | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lower | obj |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Lower | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 close | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stay | cc |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lower | conj |
| 10 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stay | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | imperative | you not said here | your hands | close property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | you not said here | calm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Squeeze it so it stays still
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Squeeze | obj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 stays | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stays | nsubj |
| 5 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Squeeze | advcl |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stays | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | imperative | you not said here | it | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | it | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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