Test 2 · ★★ · Keeping garden wildlife safe
A boy in Dublin leaves a bucket of rainwater by the shed. What is the kindest small change?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, kindest small change · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: bucket
This is test 2 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A boy in Dublin leaves a bucket of rainwater by the shed.
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 | 5 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Dublin | case |
| 4 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bucket | det |
| 7 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rainwater | case |
| 9 | rainwater | rainwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bucket | nmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 shed | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shed | det |
| 12 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | a boy in Dublin | a bucket of rainwater | by the shed | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme by shed=Location |
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 the kindest small change?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 change | det |
| 4 | kindest | kind | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 change | amod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 change | amod |
| 6 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the kindest small change | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Put a few stones on the bottom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stones | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stones | amod |
| 4 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a few stones | the bottom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme on bottom=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Put a stick in it as a ladder or cover it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stick | det |
| 3 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 ladder | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ladder | det |
| 8 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 cover | cc |
| 10 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cover | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a stick | stick | as a ladder | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in it=Destination | ||
| 2 | cover | infinitive | you not said here | stick | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
Option 3
Paint the bucket a bright colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paint | paint | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bucket | det |
| 3 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paint | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 colour | det |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 colour | amod |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paint | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | imperative | you not said here | the bucket | a bright colour obl | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bucket=Destination |
Option 4
Move it closer to the bushes so animals can find it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Move | obj |
| 3 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Move | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bushes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bushes | det |
| 6 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Move | obl |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Move | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | imperative | you not said here | it | the bushes | close property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bush=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | find | can | animals | it | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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