Test 14 · ★★ · Allergies, horses and farm animals
friend's got cats, i'm allergic, staying over anyway
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: got cats · What happens: get, be, stay over
This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 67 «Allergies, horses and farm animals» 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 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cats | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 friend | case |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cats | amod |
| 4 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 allergic | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cats | punct |
| 6 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 allergic | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 allergic | cop |
| 8 | allergic | allergic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 staying | punct |
| 10 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 allergic | advcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 staying | advmod |
| 12 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 10 staying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | friend's got cats | allergic property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay over | gerund | friend's got cats not said here | anyway, over property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Just stay away from one cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 stay | advmod |
| 2 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 stay | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 cat | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 cat | nummod |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay away | imperative | you not said here | from one cat; away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Do not mention it to anyone, it will be fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mention | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 mention | advmod |
| 3 | mention | mention | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mention | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 anyone | case |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 mention | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mention | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fine | expl |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fine | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fine | cop |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mention | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mention speech: other | imperative · do-support | you not said here | it | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | future | you not said here | fine property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Take your medicine and tell the adults first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 3 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 adults | det |
| 7 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 tell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | your medicine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the adults | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||
| 3 | medicine | your | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Pet them so you get used to it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pet | pet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pet | obj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 used | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pet | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pet | imperative | you not said here | them = they | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | you | it | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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