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Test 7 · ★ · A pet is a responsibility

A girl visits her friend whose cat looks sweet, and she wants to give it a piece of ham. What is the right first step?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, cat, right first step · What happens: visit, look, want, give, be · To what, where: friend

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 65 «A pet is a responsibility» 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 girl visits her friend whose cat looks sweet, and she wants to give it a piece of ham.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visits	nsubj
3	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visits	obj
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 cat	nmod:poss
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looks	nsubj
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 friend	acl:relcl
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looks	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wants	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wants	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wants	nsubj
13	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 visits	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wants	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 piece	det
18	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 ham	case
20	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piece	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 visits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	present	a girl	girl's friend					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent
2	look	present	cat					sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	want	present	cat						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	cat not said here	friend					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient piece=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 is the right first step?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 step	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 step	amod
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 step	amod
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the right first step						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Give it only a small piece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 piece	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 piece	amod
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a small piece	it				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient piece=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ask the friend's parent first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 parent	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 friend	case
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		the friend's parent			first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Feed it on the floor and not from her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Feed	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hand	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 hand	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 hand	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here	it		the floor			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Give it quickly while no one is looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 looking	mark
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looking	aux
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it				quickly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	look	present · progressive	no one						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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