Test 10 · ★★ · Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail ma…

cliff edge looks solid, let's sit right on it

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cliff edge, 's · What happens: look, let, sit · To what, where: 's, edge

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 325 «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety» 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	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 edge	compound
2	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	conj
7	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	right	right	ADV	_	8 sit	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	cliff edge			solid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	let	infinitive	cliff edge not said here	's			tree rules
3	sit	infinitive	's not said here		edge	right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location

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

Sit there if you hold on to the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Sit	advmod
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 hold	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hold	nsubj
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 hold	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold on a condition, not said to happen	present	you					to the grass	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stay well back; edges can crumble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	advmod
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 crumble	punct
5	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crumble	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 crumble	aux
7	crumble	crumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay back	imperative	you not said here					well property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crumble	can	edges						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Lie down flat at the edge to look over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Lie	advmod
3	flat	flat	ADV	_	1 Lie	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 edge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lie	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lie	advcl
9	over	over	ADV	_	8 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	imperative	you not said here			the edge		down, flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location
2	look over	to-infinitive	you not said here					over property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Sit down, it's solid rock and can't move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rock	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rock	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rock	cop
6	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rock	amod
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 move	cc
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 move	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 move	advmod
11	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	solid rock	tree rules
3	not move	can	you not said here		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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