Test 5 · ★★ · Keeping garden wildlife safe
A father puts netting over the strawberries. How should he put it up so it does not harm animals?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father, it · What happens: put, net, put up, not harm · To what, where: strawberries, it, animals
This is test 5 · ★★ 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 father puts netting over the strawberries.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puts | nsubj |
| 3 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | netting | net | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 puts | xcomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 strawberries | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 strawberries | det |
| 7 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 netting | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 puts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | a father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | net | gerund | a father not said here | the strawberries | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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: How should he put it up so it does not harm animals?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 11 harm | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 harm | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 harm | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 harm | advmod |
| 11 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | advcl |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 harm | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up | should | father | it | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 2 | not harm | present · do-support | it | animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Loose and floppy so it is soft if animals land on it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 floppy | cc |
| 3 | floppy | floppy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Loose | conj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 soft | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 soft | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 soft | cop |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Loose | conj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 land | mark |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 land | nsubj |
| 10 | land | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 soft | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 land | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | land a condition, not said to happen | present | animals | it | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Pulled tight so no bird or hedgehog can get tangled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 1 Pulled | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 tangled | mark |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tangled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 hedgehog | cc |
| 7 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bird | conj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tangled | aux |
| 9 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tangled | aux:pass |
| 10 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pulled | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | tight property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tangle | can · passive | no bird or hedgehog | tree rules |
Option 3
With big holes torn in it for birds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 holes | case |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 holes | amod |
| 3 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 holes | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 torn | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 birds | case |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 torn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | big holes not said here | it | for birds | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory |
Option 4
Lying on the ground around the plants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 ground | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ground | det |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lying | obl |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 plants | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plants | det |
| 7 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | the ground | around the plants | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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