Test 9 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

Which action is unkind to animals even if you do not mean harm?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, you · What happens: be, not mean · To what, where: harm

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unkind	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unkind	cop
4	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 unkind	obl
7	even	even	ADV	_	12 mean	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 mean	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 mean	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mean	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mean	advmod
12	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unkind	advcl
13	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mean	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 unkind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which action					to animals; unkind property	tree rules
2	not mean a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	harm					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Topic

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

Cutting drink rings before binning them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rings	compound
3	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cutting	obj
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 binning	mark
5	binning	bin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Cutting	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 binning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund		drink rings					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product
2	bin	gerund		rings = ring					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Telling an adult about a hungry stray dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 dog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
7	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			a adult			about a hungry stray dog	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about dog=Topic

Option 3

Watching ducks quietly from a park bench

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watching	obj
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Watching	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 bench	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bench	det
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bench	compound
7	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund		ducks		a park bench		quietly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Leaving fishing line lying by a pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 line	compound
3	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Leaving	conj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 pond	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pond	det
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		fishing line					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme
2	lie	gerund						by a pond	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pond=Location

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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