Test 12 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

jellyfish on the sand, its dead, can i pick it up

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: jellyfish · What happens: pick up · To what, where: sand

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 70 «Respecting wild animals» 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	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pick	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 sand	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sand	det
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 jellyfish	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dead	nmod:poss
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 jellyfish	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 jellyfish	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pick	aux
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 pick	nsubj
11	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pick	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 pick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	can	jellyfish on the sand	sand					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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, dead jellyfish cannot sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jellyfish	amod
4	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sting	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sting	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sting	advmod
7	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sting	can	dead jellyfish						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it can still sting even if it looks dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 sting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sting	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sting	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 sting	advmod
6	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 looks	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 looks	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sting	advcl
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	can	it				still		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	look a condition, not said to happen	present	it					dead property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, if it has been there all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 there	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 there	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 there	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	it				day	there property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, if you pick it up quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 pick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pick	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 pick	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pick	nsubj
5	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pick	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 pick	compound:prt
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 pick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	present	you	it				quickly property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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