Test 14 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

cat's stuck behind the shed, hissing, i wanna get it out

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: stick, hiss, wanna, get out · To what, where: cat, shed

This is test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Thinking like an animal» 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	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 cat	case
3	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cat	acl
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 shed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shed	det
6	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hissing	punct
8	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 cat	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanna	punct
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wanna	nsubj
11	wanna	wanna	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 cat	parataxis
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanna	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 get	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stick	participle		cat not said here	the shed	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme behind shed=Destination
2	hiss	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wanna	present	i			tree rules
4	get out	infinitive	i not said here	shed		tree rules

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

Grab it quickly before it runs off again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grab	obj
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Grab	advmod
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 runs	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 runs	nsubj
6	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Grab	advcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 runs	compound:prt
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 runs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	it				quickly property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	run off	present	it				again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Poke it with a stick to make it move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poke	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Poke	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here	it	with a stick	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with stick=Instrument
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	stick		tree rules
3	move	infinitive	stick not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Block the gap so it cannot run away from you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Block	block	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gap	det
3	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Block	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 run	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 run	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 run	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 run	advmod
8	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Block	advcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 run	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	imperative	you not said here	the gap					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer gap=Theme
2	not run away	can	gap					from you; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from you=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Leave it a way out and get an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl:unmarked
5	out	out	ADV	_	1 Leave	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 get	cc
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 adult	det
9	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it				a way obl:unmarked; out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	get	infinitive	you not said here	a adult					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus

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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