Test 14 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

mate picked up a snake on the trail to show off and it bit him, what now

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake · What happens: pick up, show off, bite · To what, where: snake, trail, him

This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 69 «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	compound
2	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 trail	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trail	det
8	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 show	mark
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 picked	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 show	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bit	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bit	nsubj
14	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bit	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 picked	obj
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 what	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pick up	participle		a snake	the trail	tree rules
2	show off	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bite	past	snake	him = he		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Catch the snake to see if it bit hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snake	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Catch	advcl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 bit	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bit	nsubj
8	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	ccomp
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bit	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	the snake		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	bite a condition, not said to happen	past	snake		hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Tell him to walk it off on the way home, it'll wear off

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 walk	mark
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walk	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 walk	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
10	home	home	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wear	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wear	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 wear	aux
14	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 wear	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	walk off not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it		the way	home property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
3	wear off	future	way					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Keep him still and calm and call the emergency number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	still	still	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 calm	cc
5	calm	calm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 call	cc
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 number	det
9	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 number	compound
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	him = he	still	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	calm	infinitive	you not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	call	infinitive	you not said here	the emergency number		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient

Option 4

Put ice on it and go on with the hike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hike	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hike	det
10	hike	hike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	ice		ice			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme on it=Destination
2	go on	infinitive	you not said here					with the hike	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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