Test 5 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

Which is the best way to deal with a thorn in your knee?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, deal · To what, where: best way

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 deal	mark
7	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 thorn	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thorn	det
10	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 knee	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 knee	nmod:poss
13	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thorn	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best way					tree rules
2	deal	to-infinitive						with a thorn in your knee	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thorn=Theme

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

Ignore it for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 week	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 week	det
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ignore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it			week		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Squeeze it hard with dirty fingers until it pops out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeeze	obj
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Squeeze	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 fingers	case
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fingers	amod
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Squeeze	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 pops	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pops	nsubj
9	pops	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Squeeze	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 pops	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	it				with dirty fingers; hard property	vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument
2	pop out	present	it						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Rub dirt on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rub	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rub	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	imperative	you not said here	dirt		dirt			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme on it=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ask a grown-up to take it out carefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 up	det
3	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 up	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 take	compound:prt
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	7 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	a grown up					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent up=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take out not said to happen	to-infinitive		up				carefully property	vn remove-10.1 «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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