Test 10 · ★★ · Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma

wasp buzzing round my head, gonna swat it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wasp · What happens: buzz, swat · To what, where: head

This is test 10 · ★★ 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	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swat	nsubj
2	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 wasp	acl
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buzzing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 swat	punct
7	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 swat	dep
8	swat	swat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	gerund	wasp not said here					round my head	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swat	infinitive	wasp	head					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Stay calm and move slowly away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 move	cc
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	infinitive	you not said here					away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Swat it hard with your hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swat	swat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Swat	obj
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Swat	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swat	imperative	you not said here	it				with your hand; hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hand=Instrument

Option 3

Wave your arms about fast to scare it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arms	nmod:poss
3	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wave	obj
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Wave	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 scare	mark
7	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wave	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scare	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 scare	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	imperative	you not said here	your arms				fast property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	scare off	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 4

Blow at it to push it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Blow	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 push	mark
5	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Blow	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 push	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	imperative	you not said here			it			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	push away	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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