Test 7 · Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not you…
«crabs only pinch if u let go, so grab hard innit». What's the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crabs, u, truth · What happens: pinch, let, go, grab, be · To what, where: hard innit
This is test 7 of lesson 458 «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» 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: «crabs only pinch if u let go, so grab hard innit».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 crabs | punct |
| 2 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pinch | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 pinch | advmod |
| 4 | pinch | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 6 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pinch | advcl |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grab | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 grab | advmod |
| 11 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 pinch | parataxis |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 innit | amod |
| 13 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grab | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 grab | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pinch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch in a quote | present | crabs | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | u | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | u not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grab in a quote | infinitive | hard innit | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innit=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.
Sentence 2: What's the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Crabs pinch to defend themselves, so leave them be
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pinch | nsubj |
| 2 | pinch | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 defend | mark |
| 4 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pinch | advcl |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 defend | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 leave | advmod |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pinch | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | obj |
| 10 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 leave | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | present | Crabs | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | defend | to-infinitive | Crabs not said here | Crabs = crab | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | Crabs not said here | Crabs = crab | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | infinitive | Crabs = crab not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Crabs never pinch children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pinch | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 pinch | advmod |
| 3 | pinch | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pinch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pinch | present | Crabs | children | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
Option 3
Holding a crab tighter stops it pinching your fingers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stops | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crab | det |
| 3 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obj |
| 4 | tighter | tight | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Holding | xcomp |
| 5 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stops | obj |
| 7 | pinching | pinch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stops | xcomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pinching | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | a crab | tight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | Holding | crab | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pinch | gerund | Holding not said here | your fingers | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme |
Option 4
Crabs only pinch on Sundays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pinch | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 pinch | advmod |
| 3 | pinch | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Sundays | case |
| 5 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 pinch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | present | Crabs | sunday | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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