Test 17 · Climbing trees and playgrounds

Ethan's sister fell outta the big oak cos the branch snapped, the ambulance came and everything

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, branch, ambulance · What happens: fall, snap, come · To what, where: outta

This is test 17 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	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ethan	case
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oak	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 oak	amod
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl:unmarked
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 snapped	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 branch	det
11	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 snapped	nsubj
12	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ambulance	det
15	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 everything	cc
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Ethan's sister	outta	the big oak obl:unmarked	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient outta=Result
2	snap	past	the branch			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the ambulance			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The real lesson is to avoid dead or thin branches and keep three points of contact

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lesson	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lesson	amod
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoid	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 avoid	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 avoid	mark
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 branches	amod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 thin	cc
9	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dead	conj
10	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 avoid	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 keep	cc
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 avoid	conj
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 points	nummod
14	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 keep	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 contact	case
16	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 points	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the real lesson		avoid property	tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	the real lesson not said here	three points of contact		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme
3	point			contact		nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

It means oak trees are the only trees that are dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trees	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trees	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
7	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trees	amod
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 dangerous	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dangerous	cop
11	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trees	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	oak trees	the only trees		tree rules
3	is	present	the only trees		dangerous property	tree rules

Option 3

It proves only girls fall out of trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 girls	advmod
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fall	nsubj
5	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fall	present	girls			trees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out tree=Location

Option 4

The real lesson is that ambulances come for every tiny fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lesson	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lesson	amod
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
6	ambulances	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 fall	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fall	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fall	amod
11	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the real lesson					for every tiny fall; come property	tree rules

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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