Test 11 · Hiking and the outdoors

found berries on the hike, can i eat em

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: find, eat · To what, where: berries, hike, em

This is test 11 of lesson 47 «Hiking and the outdoors» 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	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 found	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hike	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hike	det
5	hike	hike	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 eat	nsubj
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 found	parataxis
10	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		berries		the hike			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Topic
2	eat	can	i	em = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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

Yes, if they smell sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 smell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smell	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 smell	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smell	nsubj
5	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	they					sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, if they're red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 red	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 red	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 red	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 red	cop
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					red property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if birds eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 eat	mark
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	birds	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not ones you don't know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 ones	advmod
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ones	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	you	ones not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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