Test 6 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear

Which is the kindest way to release a fish?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, release · To what, where: kindest way, fish

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 305 «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» 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	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 release	mark
7	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fish	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 release	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the kindest way					tree rules
2	release	to-infinitive		a fish					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer fish=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

A photo session of ten minutes on the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 session	det
2	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 session	compound
3	session	session	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 minutes	case
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 session	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bank	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bank	det
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 minutes	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Dropping it into the water from a bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Dropping	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dropping	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 bridge	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bridge	det
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dropping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund		it		the water		from a bridge	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into water=Destination from bridge=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wet hands, a gentle hold, and back into the water quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hands	amod
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 back	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hold	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hold	det
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hold	amod
6	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hands	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 back	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 back	cc
9	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 back	obl
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 back	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Dry hands and a firm squeeze around the middle, so it cannot slip and fall

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hands	amod
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 squeeze	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 squeeze	det
5	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 squeeze	amod
6	squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hands	conj
7	around	around	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squeeze	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 slip	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 slip	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 slip	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 slip	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 slip	advmod
15	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hands	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fall	cc
17	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 slip	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not slip	can	middle						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	fall	infinitive	middle not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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