Test 6 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals
A girl lifts a stone in the garden, looks at the woodlice and walks off leaving it upside down. Why is that unkind?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, that · What happens: lift, look, walk off, leave, be · To what, where: stone, garden
This is test 6 · ★★ 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 girl lifts a stone in the garden, looks at the woodlice and walks off leaving it upside down.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifts | nsubj |
| 3 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifts | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifts | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looks | punct |
| 10 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifts | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 woodlice | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woodlice | det |
| 13 | woodlice | woodlice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looks | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walks | cc |
| 15 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 looks | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 walks | compound:prt |
| 17 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 walks | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leaving | obj |
| 19 | upside | upside | ADV | _ | 20 down | advmod |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 leaving | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | present | a girl | a stone | the garden | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in garden=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | present | at the woodlice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at woodlice=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk off | present | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | stone | down property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: Why is that unkind?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 unkind | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unkind | cop |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 unkind | nsubj |
| 4 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 unkind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | unkind property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Stones must be kept dry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kept | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | must · passive | Stones | dry property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Small animals lose their shelter if it is not put back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shelter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lose | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 put | advmod |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lose | advcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 put | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | Small animals | animals's shelter | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not put back a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | shelter | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
Option 3
Woodlice like to be in the hot sun all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woodlice | woodlice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 like | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sun | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sun | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sun | amod |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 like | ccomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 like | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | Woodlice | day | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | Woodlice not said here | the hot sun | tree rules |
Option 4
The stone will roll away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stone | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roll | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 roll | aux |
| 4 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 roll | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll away | future | the stone | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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