Test 12 · ★★ · Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma
jellyfish got me at the beach, rinse with my water bottle?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: jellyfish · What happens: get, rinse · To what, where: me, beach
This is test 12 · ★★ 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 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 got | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 beach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rinse | punct |
| 8 | rinse | rinse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bottle | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bottle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bottle | compound |
| 12 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rinse | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | jellyfish | me | the beach | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme at beach=Asset | |||
| 2 | rinse | infinitive | with my water bottle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1
Yes, fresh water is best
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 best | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 water | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 best | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 best | cop |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fresh water | good property | tree rules |
Option 2
Rub it with sand instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Rub | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 sand | case |
| 4 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rub | obl |
| 5 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Rub | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | imperative | you not said here | it | with sand; instead property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with sand=Theme |
Option 3
Pee on it to stop the sting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pee | nmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stop | mark |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pee | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sting | det |
| 7 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | to-infinitive | the sting | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sting=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, rinse with seawater and tell a lifeguard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 rinse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rinse | punct |
| 3 | rinse | rinse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 seawater | case |
| 5 | seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rinse | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 rinse | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lifeguard | det |
| 9 | lifeguard | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rinse | imperative | you not said here | with seawater | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a lifeguard | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lifeguard=Recipient |
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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