Test 10 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

found red berries on the trail, they look yummy, eat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: berries · What happens: find, look, eat · To what, where: red berries, trail

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 berries	amod
3	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 found	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 trail	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trail	det
6	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 found	conj
10	yummy	yummy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 look	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past		red berries	the trail		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Topic
2	look	present	berries = berry			yummy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	eat	infinitive	berries = berry not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yes, red berries are always safe to eat, they're like strawberries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 safe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 berries	amod
4	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 safe	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safe	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 safe	advmod
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 safe	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 strawberries	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 strawberries	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 strawberries	cop
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 strawberries	case
14	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 safe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	red berries	always, safe property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	red berries not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	berries = berry	like strawberries	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if birds eat them too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 eat	mark
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	birds	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, only eat berries a grown-up has identified

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 up	det
7	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 up	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 identified	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 identified	aux
11	identified	identify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 eat	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	berries					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
2	identify	present · perfect	a grown up						vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Eat one to test it first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eat	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 test	mark
4	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Eat	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 test	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 test	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	one					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	test	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				first property	vn assessment-34.1 «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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