Test 13 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals
dead bird in the garden, can i pick it up
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dead bird · What happens: pick up · To what, where: garden
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bird | amod |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pick | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bird | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bird | punct |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pick | aux |
| 8 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 pick | nsubj |
| 9 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pick | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 pick | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | can | dead bird in the garden | garden | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Not with bare hands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hands | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 hands | case |
| 3 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hands | amod |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, it can't hurt you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 hurt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | can | it | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
Option 3
Yes, if it looks clean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 looks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 looks | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looks | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | it | clean property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Yes, give it a big hug
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 give | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hug | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hug | amod |
| 7 | hug | hug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | it | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient hug=Theme |
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