Test 14 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…
friend got stung and now his face is puffing up and hes wheezy
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: face · What happens: sting, puff up · To what, where: friend
This is test 14 · ★★ 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 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stung | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stung | aux:pass |
| 3 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 puffing | cc |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 puffing | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 puffing | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 puffing | aux |
| 9 | puffing | puff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stung | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 puffing | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hes | cc |
| 12 | hes | he | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 puffing | conj |
| 13 | wheezy | wheezy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 puffing | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | past · passive | friend | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | puff up | present · progressive | friend's face | now | wheezy property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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
Tell him to run it off around the park
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 run | mark |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 run | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 run | compound:prt |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 park | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 park | det |
| 9 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run off not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | the park | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme around park=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Call the emergency number now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 3 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 number | compound |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Call | obj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Call | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | imperative | you not said here | the emergency number | now | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
Option 3
Put cool mud on it and wait for it to pass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mud | amod |
| 3 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wait | cc |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wait | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pass | mark |
| 11 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wait | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | cool mud | mud | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mud=Theme on it=Destination | |||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | for mud | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Give him some sweets to calm him down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 sweets | det |
| 4 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 calm | mark |
| 6 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 calm | obj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 calm | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | some sweets | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sweet=Theme | |||
| 2 | calm down | to-infinitive | you not said here | him = he | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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