Test 16 · Climbing trees and playgrounds
Sam says it's fine to climb when it's raining, grip's the same. true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam, it, grip · What happens: say, be, climb, rain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fine | expl |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 climb | mark |
| 7 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fine | csubj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 raining | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 raining | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 raining | aux |
| 11 | raining | rain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 climb | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 same | punct |
| 13 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 same | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 same | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fine | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Sam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | climb | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | rain | present · progressive | it | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 5 | is | present | grip | same 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, wet branches and bars are slippery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 wet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 branches | amod |
| 4 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 slippery | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bars | cc |
| 6 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 branches | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slippery | cop |
| 8 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wet branches and bars | slippery property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, if you wear thick socks over your shoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 wear | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 wear | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wear | nsubj |
| 5 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 socks | amod |
| 7 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wear | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 shoes | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wear | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | you | thick socks | your shoes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sock=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, rain makes them sticky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 makes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | rain | them = they | sticky property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
Option 4
Yes, wet wood holds better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 wet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wood | amod |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holds | nsubj |
| 5 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 holds | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | wet wood | good property | vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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