Test 11 · Doctors, cuts and grazes

stepped on a rusty nail at the farm

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: step · To what, where: rusty nail

This is test 11 of lesson 83 «Doctors, cuts and grazes» 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	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 nail	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nail	det
4	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nail	amod
5	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stepped	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 farm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farm	det
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stepped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	participle				a rusty nail		at the farm	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on nail=Trajectory

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

Only worry if it still hurts tomorrow morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 worry	advmod
2	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 hurts	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hurts	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 hurts	advmod
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 worry	ccomp
7	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 morning	compound
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurts	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worry	imperative	you not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hurt a condition, not said to happen	present	it				still; morning		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Just wash it, rust is harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 wash	advmod
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wash	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wash	punct
5	rust	rust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harmless	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 harmless	cop
7	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wash	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	present	rust					harmless property	tree rules

Option 3

Put a plaster on and forget 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 plaster	det
3	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	1 Put	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 forget	cc
6	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put on	imperative	you not said here	a plaster					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent plaster=Goal
2	forget	infinitive	you not said here	plaster					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult, you may need a tetanus jab

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 need	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 need	aux
7	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 jab	det
9	tetanus	tetanus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jab	compound
10	jab	jab	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	need	may	you	a tetanus jab					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jab=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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