Test 1 · ★★ · Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma

Why does running at a wasp or swatting it make things worse?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: run, swat, make · To what, where: wasp, things

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 85 «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 running	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 running	aux
3	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 wasp	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wasp	det
6	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 running	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 swatting	cc
8	swatting	swat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 running	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swatting	obj
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 swatting	xcomp
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obj
12	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 make	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 running	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	present · do-support		a wasp		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wasp=Trajectory
2	swat	gerund	wasp			tree rules
3	make	infinitive	things		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product

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

Swatting makes more wasps come out of the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swatting	swat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 wasps	amod
4	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	ccomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 ground	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	swat	gerund			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	make	present			tree rules
3	come out	present	more wasps	the ground	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient ground=Result

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

A frightened wasp is more likely to sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wasp	det
2	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wasp	amod
3	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 likely	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 likely	cop
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 likely	advmod
6	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sting	mark
8	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 likely	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a frightened wasp					likely property	tree rules
2	sting	to-infinitive	a frightened wasp not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Wasps cannot see slow people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Wasps	slow people					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 4

Wasps sting only people who run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sting	nsubj
2	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 people	advmod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sting	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	present	Wasps	people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	run	present	people						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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