Test 4 · Being gentle with small animals

Why might a gentle child be scratched less often than a rough child?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: scratch · To what, where: gentle child

This is test 4 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	7 scratched	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 scratched	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scratched	nsubj:pass
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 scratched	aux:pass
7	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 often	advmod
9	often	often	ADV	_	7 scratched	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 child	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
12	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 child	amod
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scratched	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 scratched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	might · passive		a gentle child				than a rough child; often property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Animals only scratch adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scratch	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 scratch	advmod
3	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scratch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	present	Animals	adults					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rough children are not allowed to hold pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allowed	advmod
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 allowed	xcomp
8	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Rough children					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rough children not said here	pets					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Animals stay calm when they are handled gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stay	nsubj
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stay	xcomp
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 handled	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 handled	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 handled	aux:pass
7	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stay	advcl
8	gently	gently	ADV	_	7 handled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Animals					calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	handle	present · passive		Animals = animal				gently property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Gentle children have thicker skin, so the claws don't go in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 skin	amod
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 claws	det
9	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Gentle children	thicker skin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2	not go in	present · do-support	the claws						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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