Test 11 · Safe in the kitchen

knife's falling off the counter, catch it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knife, you · What happens: fall off, catch · To what, where: counter

This is test 11 of lesson 31 «Safe in the kitchen» 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	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 catch	obl:unmarked
2	's	's	PART	_	1 knife	case
3	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 knife	acl
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 counter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 counter	det
6	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falling	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 knife	punct
8	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 catch	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	gerund	knife not said here	the counter					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient counter=Extent
2	catch	imperative	you not said here	counter				's knife	vn get-13.5.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, catch it with both hands together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 catch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hands	det
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obl
8	together	together	ADV	_	3 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	it				with both hands; together property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Kick it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kick	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Kick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick away	imperative	you not said here	it				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yes, catch it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 catch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	obj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	it				quickly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, step back and let it drop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 step	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 step	punct
3	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 step	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 step	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	step back	imperative	you not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	it	tree rules
3	drop	infinitive			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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