Test 3 · ★★ · Keeping garden wildlife safe

Which is true about slug pellets?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 pellets	case
5	slug	slug	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pellets	compound
6	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about slug pellets; true property	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 right answer

They can poison pets and wild animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poison	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 poison	aux
3	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poison	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 animals	cc
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	can	They	pets and wild animals					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Patient

Option 2

They are a kind of food for birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 birds	case
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	a kind				of food; for birds	tree rules

Option 3

They only harm slugs and nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 harm	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 harm	advmod
3	harm	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 harm	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nothing	cc
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 slugs	conj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	present	They	slugs					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus slug=Experiencer

Option 4

They are safe for children to hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 safe	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 safe	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 safe	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					for children; safe property	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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