Test 9 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear

caught a fish!! letting it go, can i grab it with dry hands

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fish, i · What happens: catch, let, go, grab · To what, where: fish

This is test 9 · ★ 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	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 caught	obj
4	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	5 letting	punct
5	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 caught	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 letting	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 letting	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grab	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grab	aux
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 grab	nsubj
11	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 caught	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grab	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 hands	case
14	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hands	amod
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grab	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past		a fish		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
2	let	gerund		fish		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	fish not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grab	can	i	fish	with dry hands	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

Wipe the slime off first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wipe	wipe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slime	det
3	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wipe	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	1 Wipe	compound:prt
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Wipe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe off	imperative	you not said here	the slime				first property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent slime=Source

Option 2

Yes, dry hands grip it better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 grip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hands	amod
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grip	nsubj
5	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grip	obj
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grip	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grip	present	dry hands	it				good property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wet your hands first to protect its slime coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wet	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Wet	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 protect	mark
6	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wet	advcl
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 coat	nmod:poss
8	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coat	compound
9	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wet	imperative	you not said here	your hands				first property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	protect	to-infinitive	you not said here	its slime coat					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Beneficiary

Option 4

Wear thick gloves instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gloves	amod
3	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wear	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Wear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	imperative	you not said here	thick gloves				instead property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glove=Theme

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