Test 16 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

forgot to shake my boots out, somethin bit my toe, we're in Sydney

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: forget, not shake out, be · To what, where: boots, Sydney

This is test 16 · ★★ 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	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 shake	mark
3	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 forgot	xcomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 boots	nmod:poss
5	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shake	obj
6	out	out	ADV	_	3 shake	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bit	punct
8	somethin	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 bit	compound
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shake	obl
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 toe	nmod:poss
11	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Sydney	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Sydney	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Sydney	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Sydney	case
16	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 forgot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forget	past					tree rules
2	not shake out	to-infinitive		my boots		somethin bit my toe obl; out property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
3	is	present	we		Sydney		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 · ← Mova's choice

Pop the boots back on and keep going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boots	det
3	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pop	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	5 on	advmod
5	on	on	ADV	_	1 Pop	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pop	conj
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pop	imperative	you not said here	the boots	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here		tree rules
3	go	gerund	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Squeeze the bite to push it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bite	det
3	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeeze	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 push	mark
5	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Squeeze	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 push	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 push	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	the bite					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme
2	push out	to-infinitive	you not said here	bite					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Wait till tomorrow and see how it feels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	till	till	ADP	_	3 tomorrow	case
3	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 see	cc
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 feels	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feels	nsubj
8	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	tomorrow	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	feel	present	it		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult now and call 000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Tell	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 call	cc
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
7	000	000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	call	infinitive	you not said here	000					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 000=Recipient

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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