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Test 9 · Lifting and carrying heavy things

Leo has a heavy shopping bag. How can he make carrying easier?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: have, make, carry · To what, where: heavy shopping bag

This is test 9 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: Leo has a heavy shopping bag.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bag	det
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bag	amod
5	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bag	compound
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Leo	a heavy shopping bag					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient

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: How can he make carrying easier?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 make	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 make	obj
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	Leo					easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	carry	gerund							vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hold it on one finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 finger	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 finger	nummod
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it		one finger			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=Location

Option 2

Hold it far out to the side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 out	advmod
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 Hold	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it				to the side; out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Split it into two bags, one for each hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Split	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 bags	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bags	nummod
5	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Split	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bags	appos
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 hand	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hand	det
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	imperative	you not said here	it				into two bags result; for each hand	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into bag=Result

Option 4

Carry it on his head without holding it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carry	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carry	obl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 holding	mark
7	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Carry	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 holding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	it		his head			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hold	gerund	you not said here	head					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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