Test 12 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

tortoise looks clean, why wash hands

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tortoise · What happens: look, wash · To what, where: hands

This is test 12 · ★ 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	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wash	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 wash	advmod
6	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looks	conj
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	tortoise					clean property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	wash	infinitive	tortoise not said here	hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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

It's only for dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dogs	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dogs	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 dogs	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for dogs	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They leave dust on you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	They	dust				on you	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dust=Theme on you=Location

Option 3

Tortoise shells are sharp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shells	compound
2	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sharp	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sharp	cop
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tortoise shells					sharp property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Reptiles can carry salmonella

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	can	Reptiles	salmonella					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmonella=Theme

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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