Test 11 · ★★ · Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma

touched nettles, rubbing it to make it better

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: touched nettles · What happens: touch, rub, make · To what, where: it

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 nettles	amod
2	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rubbing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 nettles	punct
4	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rubbing	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rubbing	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	participle				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rub	gerund	touched nettles	it		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	touched nettles not said here	it	good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Do not rub, wash the skin instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 rub	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 rub	advmod
3	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wash	punct
5	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 rub	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wash	obj
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 wash	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rub	imperative · do-support	you not said here						vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	wash	infinitive	you not said here	the skin				instead property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

Option 2

Rub harder, it spreads the pain out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rub	rub	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harder	obl:unmarked
2	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 spreads	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spreads	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spreads	nsubj
5	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pain	det
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spreads	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	5 spreads	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	present	Rub	the pain					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pain=Theme

Option 3

Rub dirt on it to soothe it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rub	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rub	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 soothe	mark
6	soothe	soothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Rub	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 soothe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	imperative	you not said here	dirt		dirt			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme on it=Destination
2	soothe	to-infinitive	you not said here	dirt					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 4

Scratch it until it stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Scratch	obj
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 stops	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stops	nsubj
5	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Scratch	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	imperative	you not said here	it					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	stop	present	it						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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