Test 13 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

skunk lifting its tail at us lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: skunk · What happens: lift · To what, where: tail

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	skunk	skunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	lifting	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 skunk	acl
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tail	nmod:poss
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifting	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lifting	obl
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 skunk	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	gerund	skunk not said here	skunk's tail				at us	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme at we=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

Back away quietly, it may spray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	3 quietly	advmod
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 spray	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quietly	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spray	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 spray	aux
7	spray	spray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	may	it					quietly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Clap loud to scare it away fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clap	clap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scare	nsubj
2	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 scare	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 scare	mark
4	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scare	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 scare	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 scare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	to-infinitive	Clap	it				away, fast, loud property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 3

Go closer to take a photo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Go	xcomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 closer	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 photo	det
6	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					close property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	to-infinitive	you not said here	a photo					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme

Option 4

Throw a stone near its tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 tail	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	a stone		stone's tail			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme near tail=Destination

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