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Test 2 · ★★ · Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet

A boy in Florida holds his pet turtle and then eats a sandwich without washing his hands. What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: hold, eat, wash, happen · To what, where: pet turtle, sandwich, hands

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 64 «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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: A boy in Florida holds his pet turtle and then eats a sandwich without washing his hands.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holds	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 turtle	nmod:poss
7	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turtle	compound
8	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holds	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eats	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 eats	advmod
11	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 holds	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sandwich	det
13	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eats	obj
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 washing	mark
15	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 eats	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 washing	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 holds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	a boy in Florida	boy's pet turtle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turtle=Theme
2	eat	present	a boy in Florida not said here	a sandwich			then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Patient
3	wash	gerund	a boy in Florida not said here	boy's hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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.

Sentence 2: What could happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He could catch salmonella germs from the turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 germs	compound
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 turtle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 turtle	det
8	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	could	He	salmonella germs		the turtle			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent germ=Theme from turtle=Source

Option 2

Nothing, because the turtle looked clean and healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 looked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 looked	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 turtle	det
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looked	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 healthy	cc
9	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Nothing					clean property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

His sandwich would taste of the turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sandwich	nmod:poss
2	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taste	aux
4	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 turtle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 turtle	det
7	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	His sandwich					of the turtle	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

The turtle could catch his cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 turtle	det
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cold	nmod:poss
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	could	the turtle	turtle's cold					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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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