Test 6 · ★ · Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, f…

Which is true about cacti?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 cacti	case
5	cacti	cactus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about cacti; true property	tree rules

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

Only the flowers have spines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 flowers	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flowers	det
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the flowers	spines					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient

Option 2

The spines dissolve in skin after a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spines	det
2	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dissolve	nsubj
3	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 skin	case
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolve	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 minute	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 minute	det
8	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	present	the spines			skin	minute		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Their spines get stuck in skin and are hard to remove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 spines	nmod:poss
2	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 skin	case
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hard	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hard	cop
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuck	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 remove	mark
11	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	present	Their spines	stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	Their spines not said here	hard property	tree rules
3	remove	to-infinitive	Their spines not said here		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They are perfectly safe if you touch them very quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 safe	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
3	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	4 safe	advmod
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 touch	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 touch	nsubj
7	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touch	obj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 quickly	advmod
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 touch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					perfectly, safe property	tree rules
2	touch a condition, not said to happen	present	you	them = they				quickly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

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