Test 16 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures

Ruby says touching frogs and toads is totally fine. right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ruby, touching · What happens: say, touch, be · To what, where: frogs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ 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	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 fine	csubj
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 touching	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 toads	cc
6	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 frogs	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
8	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
11	right	right	ADV	_	2 says	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ruby			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	touch	gerund		frogs and toads		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frog=Co-Theme
3	is	present	touching		fine, totally 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

Yes, unless they are big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Yes, they are tiny so they cannot hurt anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tiny	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tiny	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 hurt	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hurt	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hurt	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 hurt	advmod
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tiny	advcl
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 hurt	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					tiny property	tree rules
2	not hurt	can	they	anyone		all			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, wash your hands, some have poison or germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 wash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wash	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wash	advcl
9	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 germs	cc
11	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poison	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	your hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	have	present	some	poison or germs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient

Option 4

Yes, they are always clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 clean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clean	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clean	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 clean	advmod
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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