Test 9 · ★ · Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking

squirrel came right up to me!! give it my crisps?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: squirrel · What happens: come, give · To what, where: squirrel

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 299 «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	6 me	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl
7	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	obj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 crisps	nmod:poss
11	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 give	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	squirrel					up me; right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up i=Initial_Location
2	give	infinitive	squirrel not said here	squirrel					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient crisp=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

Yes, but hold it still so it can't bite you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 hold	cc
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	obj
6	still	still	ADV	_	4 hold	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 bite	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bite	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 bite	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bite	advmod
11	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hold	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present		it			still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not bite	can	it	you					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 2

Feed it just a little bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Feed	obj
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 bit	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here	it				a little bit obl	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yes, squirrels love crisps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 love	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	squirrels	crisps					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crisp=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, watch from far away, people food is bad for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 watch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 far	case
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 watch	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bad	punct
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 food	compound
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bad	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bad	cop
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 watch	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here					far property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	people food					for it; bad property	tree rules

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