Test 17 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

omg a bison at Yellowstone threw a guy like 30 feet in the air cos he went up for a selfie, what's the lesson

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bison, selfie · What happens: throw, co, go up, be · To what, where: guy, air, lesson

This is test 17 · ★★ 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	omg	omg	INTJ	_	6 threw	discourse
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bison	det
3	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Yellowstone	case
5	Yellowstone	Yellowstone	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bison	nmod
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cos	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 guy	det
8	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 feet	nummod
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 threw	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obl
15	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cos	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 went	compound:prt
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 selfie	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 selfie	det
21	selfie	selfie	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lesson	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 lesson	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 lesson	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lesson	det
26	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 selfie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	a bison at Yellowstone	a guy	the air	like 30 feet	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent guy=Theme in air=Destination
2	co	present					tree rules
3	go up	past	bison			for a selfie and the lesson	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	present	a selfie and the lesson	the lesson			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 · ✓ the right answer

Keep well back from big wild animals, even calm-looking ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	advmod
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 animals	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ones	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	13 ones	advmod
10	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looking	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 calm	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep back	imperative	you not said here	looking ones				from big wild animals; well property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from animal=Eventuality
2	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Bison are tame, the man must have hit it first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tame	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tame	cop
3	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hit	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 hit	aux
9	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 tame	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hit	obj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bison					tame property	tree rules
2	hit	must · perfect	the man	Bison				first property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 3

Bison only attack people who carry phones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attack	compound
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 attack	advmod
3	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attack	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 carry	nsubj
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 people	acl:relcl
7	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	present		people					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	carry	present	people	phones					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme

Option 4

Selfies are fine if you move very quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selfies	selfy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fine	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 move	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 move	nsubj
6	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 quickly	advmod
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Selfies					fine property	tree rules
2	move a condition, not said to happen	present	you					quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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