Test 6 · Lifting and carrying heavy things
You hold a heavy pot of soil and need to put it on a shelf to your left. What do you do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: hold, need, put, do · To what, where: heavy pot, pot, shelf
This is test 6 of lesson 3 «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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: You hold a heavy pot of soil and need to put it on a shelf to your left.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 hold | nsubj |
| 2 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pot | det |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pot | amod |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hold | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 soil | case |
| 7 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pot | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 need | cc |
| 9 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hold | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 need | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shelf | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shelf | det |
| 15 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 left | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 left | nmod:poss |
| 18 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hold | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | You | a heavy pot of soil | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | You not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | pot | a shelf | to your left | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shelf=Destination |
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 do you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · do-support | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Twist your waist to the left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twist | twist | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 waist | nmod:poss |
| 3 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twist | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 left | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 left | det |
| 6 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twist | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | imperative | you not said here | your waist | the left | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent waist=Theme to left=Trajectory |
Option 2
Throw it onto the shelf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Throw | obj |
| 3 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 5 shelf | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shelf | det |
| 5 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throw | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | imperative | you not said here | it | the shelf | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme onto shelf=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Step round with your feet to face it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Step | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Step | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 face | mark |
| 7 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Step | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 face | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | to-infinitive | Step | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
Option 4
Swing it round with straight arms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swing | swing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Swing | obj |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Swing | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 arms | case |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 arms | amod |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Swing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | imperative | you not said here | it | with straight arms; round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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