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Test 8 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

A boy on the beach in Wales sees a seal lying still and bleeding a little. What is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, seal · What happens: see, lie, bleed, be · To what, where: seal, little

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy on the beach in Wales sees a seal lying still and bleeding a little.

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 sees	nsubj
3	on	on	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 Wales	case
7	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 beach	nmod
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 seal	det
10	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sees	obj
11	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 seal	acl
12	still	still	ADV	_	11 lying	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bleeding	cc
14	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 lying	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 little	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bleeding	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a boy on the beach in Wales	a seal					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seal=Stimulus
2	lie	gerund	a seal not said here				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bleed	gerund	a seal not said here	a little					vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent little=Source

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 is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Throw his towel over it and lift it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 towel	nmod:poss
3	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lift	cc
7	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Throw	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	his towel		towel			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent towel=Theme over it=Destination
2	lift	infinitive	you not said here	towel					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Poke it with a stick to see if it is alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poke	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Poke	advcl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 alive	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 alive	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 alive	cop
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here	it				with a stick	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with stick=Instrument
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	stick					alive property	tree rules

Option 3

Carry it back into the water himself as quickly as he can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carry	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Carry	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carry	obl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 water	nmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 quickly	advmod
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Carry	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 can	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 can	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 quickly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry back	imperative	you not said here	it		the water himself		quickly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Keep back and tell an adult, who can call for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 call	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 call	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 call	aux
10	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 adult	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 help	case
12	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep back	imperative	you not said here						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	call	can	a adult					for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

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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