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Test 4 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

A boy at the beach in Cornwall picks up a dead-looking jellyfish and his hand starts to burn. What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, hand · What happens: pick up, look, start, burn, happen · To what, where: looking jellyfish

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy at the beach in Cornwall picks up a dead-looking jellyfish and his hand starts to burn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 picks	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 beach	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beach	det
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Cornwall	case
7	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 beach	nmod
8	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 picks	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 jellyfish	det
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looking	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct
13	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 jellyfish	amod
14	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 picks	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 starts	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 starts	nsubj
18	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 picks	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 burn	mark
20	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 starts	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 picks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	present	a boy at the beach in Cornwall	a looking jellyfish					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jellyfish=Topic
2	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	start	present	boy's hand						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	burn	to-infinitive	boy's hand not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

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

A dead jellyfish can still sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 jellyfish	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jellyfish	amod
3	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	can	a dead jellyfish				still		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He touched a stone hot from the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obj
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 touched	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	He	a stone		the sun		hot property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Co-Theme

Option 3

It was not a jellyfish

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	5 jellyfish	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jellyfish	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 jellyfish	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jellyfish	det
5	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	It	a jellyfish					tree rules

Option 4

He was bitten by a crab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bitten	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bitten	aux:pass
3	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 crab	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crab	det
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bitten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past · passive	a crab	He					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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