Test 11 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

back from long grass, what do i check for

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: check · To what, where: long grass

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 29 «Wild birds, bats and germs from 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	back	back	ADV	_	4 grass	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 grass	case
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 check	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 check	obj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 check	aux
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 check	nsubj
9	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grass	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	present · do-support	i	long grass					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

Splinters in your shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 shoes	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoes	nmod:poss
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Splinters	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Grass seeds in your hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeds	compound
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hair	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeds	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Nothing at all, you're fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 fine	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 fine	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					fine property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ticks on your skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 skin	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 skin	nmod:poss
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ticks	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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