Test 12 · ★ · Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, f…

stung by a bee, finger puffing a bit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: finger · What happens: sting, puff · To what, where: bit

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 326 «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 bee	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bee	det
4	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stung	obl:agent
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 finger	punct
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bee	conj
7	puffing	puff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 finger	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 puffing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	puff	gerund	finger not said here	a bit					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bit=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 · ← Mova's choice

Put mud on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	mud		mud			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mud=Theme on it=Destination

Option 2

Ignore it and keep playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 keep	cc
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	conj
5	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here		tree rules
3	play	gerund	you not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Squeeze it hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeeze	obj
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Squeeze	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	it				hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Scrape the sting out, cool it and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scrape	scrape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sting	det
3	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scrape	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	1 Scrape	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cool	punct
6	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Scrape	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cool	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Scrape	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	scrape out	imperative	you not said here	the sting		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient
2	cool	infinitive	you not said here	sting		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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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