Test 7 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

Why is the touch pool rule «two fingers, gently» important?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: touch pool rule

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 rule	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rule	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rule	det
4	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rule	compound
5	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rule	compound
6	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 fingers	punct
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 fingers	nummod
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rule	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gently	punct
11	gently	gently	ADV	_	13 important	advmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 gently	punct
13	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fingers	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fingers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the touch pool rule					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 water is too cold for whole hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cold	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hands	amod
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water					for whole hands; cold property	tree rules

Option 2

The staff count fingers to see exactly who has touched each animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 staff	det
2	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	nsubj
3	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 count	advcl
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 touched	advmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 touched	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 touched	aux
10	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 see	ccomp
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 animal	det
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 touched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	count	present	the staff	fingers		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the staff not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	touch	present · perfect		each animal	exactly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sea creatures are delicate and rough hands can hurt them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 creatures	compound
2	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 delicate	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 delicate	cop
4	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
6	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hands	amod
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hurt	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 delicate	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sea creatures					delicate property	tree rules
2	hurt	can	rough hands	creatures = creature					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient

Option 4

The creatures will bite a whole hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 creatures	det
2	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	aux
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hand	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	future	the creatures	a whole hand					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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