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Test 3 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

In a TV film someone sucks venom out of a snake bite. Why should you not copy this?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, you · What happens: suck, not copy · To what, where: venom, TV film, this

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: In a TV film someone sucks venom out of a snake bite.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 film	det
3	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 film	compound
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sucks	obl
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 sucks	nsubj
6	sucks	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sucks	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 bite	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 bite	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bite	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bite	compound
12	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sucks	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sucks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	present	someone	venom		a TV film		out a snake bite	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent venom=Theme out bite=Source

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.

Sentence 2: Why should you not copy this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 copy	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 copy	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 copy	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 copy	advmod
5	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 copy	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 copy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not copy	should	you	this					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme

The options

Option 1

It works, but only in films

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 films	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 films	cc
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 films	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 films	case
7	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					in films	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in film=Theme

Option 2

It only works on small snakes with little venom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 snakes	case
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snakes	amod
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 works	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 venom	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 venom	amod
9	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snakes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					on small snakes with little venom	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on snake=Theme

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

It does not work and causes harm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 work	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 causes	cc
6	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	conj
7	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	present · do-support	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cause	present		harm					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient

Option 4

It only works if you spit fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 spit	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 spit	nsubj
6	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 works	advcl
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 spit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spit a condition, not said to happen	present	you					fast property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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