Test 13 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

these red berries look like cranberries, can i eat em

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: red berries, i · What happens: look, eat · To what, where: em

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 berries	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 berries	amod
3	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 cranberries	case
6	cranberries	cranberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 eat	nsubj
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	conj
11	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	this red berries					like cranberries	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	eat	can	i	em = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if birds eat them

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

#	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 2

Yes, if they're washed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 washed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 washed	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 washed	nsubj:pass
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 washed	aux:pass
6	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present · passive		they					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Yes, if they taste sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 taste	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taste	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 taste	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taste	nsubj
5	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	they					sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Only eat berries an adult has checked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 eat	advmod
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adult	det
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 checked	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 checked	aux
7	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 eat	advcl

#	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	check	present · perfect	a adult						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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