Test 16 · ★ · Eyes, nose and using the toilet

lil bro shoved a bead up his nose lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lil bro · What happens: shove up · To what, where: bead

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 78 «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» 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	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bro	amod
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoved	nsubj
3	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bead	det
5	bead	bead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoved	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 shoved	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nose	nmod:poss
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoved	obj
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 shoved	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove up	past	lil bro	a bead					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bead=Destination nose=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Get him to sniff hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Get	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sniff	mark
4	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Get	xcomp
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 sniff	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	sniff	to-infinitive	him = he not said here					hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult now, don't poke it, it may need a doctor

The tree, 13 words

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	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 poke	punct
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 poke	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 poke	advmod
8	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 poke	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 need	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 need	aux
13	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 doctor	det
15	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	not poke	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	adult			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	need	may	adult	a doctor			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme

Option 3

Leave it, it melts in a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 melts	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 melts	nsubj
5	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	melt	present	it				day		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Push it further up so it comes out of his mouth instead, easy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Push	obj
3	further	further	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	1 Push	advmod
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 comes	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Push	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouth	nmod:poss
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	obl
12	instead	instead	ADV	_	14 easy	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 instead	punct
14	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Push	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here	it					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	come out	present	it	his mouth					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result

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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