Test 14 · ★★ · Keeping garden wildlife safe

dad wants slug pellets on the veg, we got a dog and hedgehogs

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, we · What happens: want, get · To what, where: slug pellets, veg, dog

This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 72 «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slug	slug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pellets	compound
4	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wants	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 veg	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 veg	det
7	veg	veg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hedgehogs	cc
14	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dog	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	dad	slug pellets		the veg			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pellet=Theme
2	get	past	we	a dog and hedgehogs					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus

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

Only dogs get sick, never hedgehogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 dogs	advmod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hedgehogs	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 hedgehogs	advmod
7	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	dogs	hedgehogs				sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Put extra pellets to be sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pellets	amod
3	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Put	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 sure	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sure	cop
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Put	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	extra pellets					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pellet=Goal
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					sure property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Use a safe way instead, pellets can poison pets and wildlife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 way	det
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Use	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 poison	punct
7	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poison	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 poison	aux
9	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Use	conj
10	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poison	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wildlife	cc
12	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a safe way				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	poison	can	pellets	pets and wildlife					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Patient

Option 4

Pellets are fine, animals hate the smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fine	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hate	punct
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hate	nsubj
6	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smell	det
8	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pellets					fine property	tree rules
2	hate	present	animals	the smell					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus

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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