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Test 9 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

A toddler pushes a pea into his ear. What should his big brother do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: toddler, big brother · What happens: push, do · To what, where: pea, ear

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 77 «Hair, nails and ears» 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 toddler pushes a pea into his ear.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 toddler	det
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pea	det
5	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 ear	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ear	nmod:poss
8	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pushes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	a toddler	a pea		toddler's ear			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pea=Theme into ear=Destination

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 should his big brother do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	toddler's big brother						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Pour water in to float it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	1 Pour	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 float	mark
5	float	float	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pour	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 float	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 float	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour in	imperative	you not said here	water					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	float out	to-infinitive	you not said here	water					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 3

Laugh and wait for it to fall out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wait	cc
3	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wait	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fall	mark
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wait	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 fall	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here					for it	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall out	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Try to dig it out with tweezers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 dig	mark
3	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Try	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dig	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 dig	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 tweezers	case
7	tweezers	tweezer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dig out not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				with tweezers	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with tweezer=Instrument

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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