Test 7 · Doctors, cuts and grazes
A brother finds a sharp knife and wants to play pirates with it. What is right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother · What happens: find, want, play, be · To what, where: sharp knife, pirates
This is test 7 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
Sentence 1: A brother finds a sharp knife and wants to play pirates with it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knife | det |
| 5 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knife | amod |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wants | cc |
| 8 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wants | xcomp |
| 11 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 play | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 play | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a brother | a sharp knife | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic | ||||
| 2 | want | present | a brother not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | a brother not said here | pirates | with knife | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent pirate=Theme with it=Co-Agent |
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 is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Wrap it in paper and then play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrap | wrap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Wrap | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 paper | case |
| 4 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wrap | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 play | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 play | advmod |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wrap | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | imperative | you not said here | it | paper | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in paper=Destination | |||
| 2 | play | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Play carefully if you are both over eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 1 Play | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 over | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 over | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 over | cop |
| 6 | both | both | ADV | _ | 7 over | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 eight | advmod |
| 8 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Play | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | imperative | you not said here | carefully property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | both, over property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Do not play with it and tell an adult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 play | advmod |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 play | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | conj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 adult | det |
| 9 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not play | imperative · do-support | you not said here | with it | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
Option 4
Play only outdoors on the grass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 outdoors | advmod |
| 3 | outdoors | outdoors | ADV | _ | 1 Play | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 grass | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grass | det |
| 6 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Play | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | imperative | you not said here | the grass | outdoors property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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