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Test 1 · ★ · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

Your teacher asks you to hand her the scissors. Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: ask, hand, be · To what, where: you, scissors, teacher

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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: Your teacher asks you to hand her the scissors.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 asks	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hand	mark
6	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hand	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scissors	det
9	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hand	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Your teacher		you				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hand not said to happen	to-infinitive	Your teacher not said here	the scissors	teacher				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination scissors=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.

Sentence 2: Which is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Open them so she can cut straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Open	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 cut	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cut	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Open	advcl
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	cut	can	she					away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Toss them gently onto her desk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toss	toss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Toss	obj
3	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Toss	advmod
4	onto	onto	ADP	_	6 desk	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 desk	nmod:poss
6	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Toss	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	imperative	you not said here	them = they		her desk		gently property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient onto desk=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Point the blades towards her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Point	point	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blades	det
3	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Point	obj
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	1 Point	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	imperative	you not said here	the blades					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Close them and hold out the handles to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Close	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hold	cc
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Close	conj
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 hold	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 handles	det
7	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	hold out	infinitive	you not said here	the handles	her = she				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=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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