Test 14 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures

wanna kiss the baby chick, it's so fluffy

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, chick · What happens: kiss, be · To what, where: baby chick

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 kiss	dep
2	kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chick	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chick	compound
5	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kiss	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fluffy	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fluffy	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fluffy	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 fluffy	advmod
10	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kiss	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	imperative	you not said here	the baby chick					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Co-Agent
2	is	present	chick					fluffy property	tree rules

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

Kiss it but not on the beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kiss	obj
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 beak	cc
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 beak	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 beak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beak	det
7	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kiss	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	imperative	you not said here	it					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent

Option 2

Kiss it if it is yellow and fluffy all over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kiss	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 yellow	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 yellow	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 yellow	cop
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kiss	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fluffy	cc
8	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yellow	conj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 over	advmod
10	over	over	ADV	_	6 yellow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kiss	imperative	you not said here	it		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	it		over, yellow property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules

Option 3

Kiss it, chicks are clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kiss	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 clean	punct
4	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clean	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clean	cop
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kiss	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	imperative	you not said here	it					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
2	is	present	chicks					clean property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Do not kiss it and wash your hands after touching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 kiss	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 kiss	advmod
3	kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kiss	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wash	cc
6	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 kiss	conj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wash	obj
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 touching	mark
10	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wash	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not kiss	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
2	wash	infinitive	you not said here	your hands	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	touch	gerund	you not said here		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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