Test 14 · Safe in the kitchen

little sis is reaching for my hot chocolate on the table

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little sis · What happens: reach · To what, where: table

This is test 14 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	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sis	amod
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reaching	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reaching	aux
4	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 chocolate	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 chocolate	nmod:poss
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chocolate	amod
8	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reaching	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 table	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 table	det
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reaching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present · progressive	little sis			the table		for my hot chocolate	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Let her have a tiny sip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sip	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sip	amod
6	sip	sip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	her = she					tree rules
2	have	infinitive	her = she not said here	a tiny sip					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sip=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Move it far back out of her reach at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Move	obj
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 back	advmod
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Move	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 reach	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 reach	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 reach	nmod:poss
8	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	imperative	you not said here	it		her reach			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme out reach=Source at once=Trajectory

Option 3

Tell her it is hot and leave it right there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hot	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 leave	cc
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leave	obj
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	present	it				hot property	tree rules
3	leave	infinitive	you not said here	it		there		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Blow on it so it is safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Blow	obl
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 safe	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 safe	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Blow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	imperative	you not said here			it			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	it					safe property	tree rules

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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