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Test 1 · ★ · The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets

«get rid of the hamster, it's defective lol». What should Sam do instead?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, hamster, Sam · What happens: get, be, do

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 457 «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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: «get rid of the hamster, it's defective lol».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hamster	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hamster	det
6	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rid	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 defective	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 defective	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 defective	cop
10	defective	defective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	conj
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 get	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	imperative	you not said here					rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	present	hamster					defective 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.

Sentence 2: What should Sam do instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 do	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	Sam					instead property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Swap it for a goldfish instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Swap	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 goldfish	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 goldfish	det
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swap	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Swap	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	imperative	you not said here	it				for a goldfish; instead property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for goldfish=Co-Theme

Option 2

Put it outside to toughen up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 toughen	mark
5	toughen	toughen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Put	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 toughen	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	it				outside property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
2	toughen up	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Wear gloves and grab harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wear	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 grab	cc
4	grab	grab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gloves	conj
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Wear	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	imperative	you not said here	gloves and grab				hard property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glove=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Change how he picks it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 picks	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picks	nsubj
4	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Change	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picks	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 picks	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	imperative	you not said here						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pick up	present	he	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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