Test 12 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

wanna touch the cactus, looks soft

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: touch, look · To what, where: cactus

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 touch	dep
2	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cactus	det
4	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touch	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looks	punct
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 touch	advcl
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	imperative	you not said here	the cactus					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cactus=Co-Theme
2	look	present	you not said here					soft property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Don't, the spines go in and are hard to get out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spines	det
5	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Do	parataxis
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hard	cc
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hard	cop
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hard	xcomp
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not do	imperative	you not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go in	present	the spines		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the spines not said here	hard property	tree rules
4	get out	to-infinitive	the spines not said here	out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only touch the flower part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 touch	advmod
2	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	compound
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	imperative	you not said here	the flower part					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Co-Theme

Option 3

Fine, if you touch it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 touch	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 touch	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 touch	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 touch	nsubj
5	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touch	obj
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 touch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present	you	it				quickly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 4

Fine, cactus spines are soft like fur on that kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spines	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spines	compound
4	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 soft	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 soft	cop
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 fur	case
8	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soft	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 kind	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soft	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Fine cactus spines			that kind		like fur; soft property	tree rules

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