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Test 4 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

A child in Texas wants to pull firewood from the bottom of the woodpile with bare hands. What is the danger?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: child, danger · What happens: want, pull, be · To what, where: firewood, bottom

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: A child in Texas wants to pull firewood from the bottom of the woodpile with bare hands.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 child	nmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pull	mark
7	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pull	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 bottom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottom	det
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pull	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 woodpile	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woodpile	det
14	woodpile	woodpile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bottom	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 hands	case
16	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hands	amod
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pull	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a child in Texas						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	pull not said to happen	to-infinitive	a child in Texas not said here	firewood		the bottom of the woodpile		with bare hands	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent firewood=Theme from bottom=Initial_Location

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: What is the danger?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 danger	det
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the danger						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A venomous spider such as a black widow may be hiding there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spider	det
2	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spider	amod
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hiding	nsubj
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	8 widow	case
5	as	as	ADP	_	4 such	fixed
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 widow	det
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 widow	amod
8	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spider	nmod
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hiding	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 hiding	aux
11	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 hiding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	may · progressive	a venomous spider such a black widow			there			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The pile might be home to fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 home	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 home	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 home	cop
5	home	home	ADV	_	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 fish	case
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 home	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	the pile					to fish; home property	tree rules

Option 3

The wood may be too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wood	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cold	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cold	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	the wood					cold property	tree rules

Option 4

The child may get some splinters, but nothing more than that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 splinters	det
6	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 nothing	cc
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 get	parataxis
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 nothing	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	may	the child	some splinters					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splinter=Stimulus

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