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Test 5 · ★ · Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on b…

In Alaska in winter a boy wants to lick a frozen metal railing. What would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: want, lick, happen · To what, where: Alaska, frozen metal railing

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 294 «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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: In Alaska in winter a boy wants to lick a frozen metal railing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Alaska	case
2	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wants	obl
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 winter	case
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Alaska	nmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wants	nsubj
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 lick	mark
9	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 railing	det
11	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 railing	amod
12	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 railing	compound
13	railing	railing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lick	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a boy			Alaska in winter			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	lick not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy not said here	a frozen metal railing					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent railing=Source

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 would happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

His tongue could freeze and stick to the metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tongue	nmod:poss
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stick	cc
6	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 freeze	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 metal	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 metal	det
9	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	could	His tongue						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stick	infinitive	His tongue not said here					to the metal	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to metal=Co-Patient

Option 2

The rail would taste of ice cream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rail	det
2	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taste	aux
4	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cream	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cream	compound
7	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	the rail					of ice cream	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

His tongue would warm the rail and nothing happens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tongue	nmod:poss
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warm	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	aux
4	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rail	det
6	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happens	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nothing	cc
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 rail	conj
9	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	would	His tongue						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	happen	present	the rail						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

His tongue would turn blue for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tongue	nmod:poss
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 good	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	His tongue					for good; blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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