Test 1 · Climbing trees and playgrounds
A boy in Florida reaches for a high branch with both hands while one foot hangs free. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, one foot · What happens: reach, hang, be
This is test 1 of lesson 4 «Climbing trees and playgrounds» 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
Sentence 1: A boy in Florida reaches for a high branch with both hands while one foot hangs free.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reaches | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Florida | case |
| 4 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 branch | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 branch | det |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 branch | amod |
| 9 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reaches | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 hands | det |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reaches | obl |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 hangs | mark |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 foot | nummod |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hangs | nsubj |
| 16 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reaches | advcl |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hangs | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reaches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | a boy in Florida | for a high branch; with both hands | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hang | present | one foot | free property | vn assuming_position-50 «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.
Sentence 2: What is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He should use his teeth too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 use | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | aux |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 use | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | should | He | his teeth | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He has only one point of contact left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 point | nummod |
| 5 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 contact | case |
| 7 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 point | nmod |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 contact | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | He | one point of contact | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | contact not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | point | contact | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
Nothing, that is the best way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the best way | tree rules |
Option 4
He is climbing too slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbing | aux |
| 3 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 climbing | advmod |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 climbing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present · progressive | He | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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