Test 18 · ★★ · Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma

Zoe reckons if u wee on a jellyfish sting it stops it, her brother told her

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zoe, u, sting, brother · What happens: reckon, wee, stop, tell · To what, where: jellyfish sting, it, Zoe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★★ 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	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wee	mark
4	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wee	nsubj
5	wee	wee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 sting	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sting	det
8	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sting	compound
9	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wee	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stops	nsubj
11	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sting	acl:relcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stops	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brother	nmod:poss
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	reckon	present	Zoe				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wee a condition, not said to happen	present	u			a jellyfish sting	tree rules
3	stop	present	sting	it			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	past	Zoe's brother		Zoe		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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, but only in Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Australia	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Australia	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Australia	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Fresh tap water is the real trick, not wee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
2	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	compound
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trick	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trick	amod
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wee	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 wee	advmod
10	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fresh tap water	the real trick					tree rules
2	not be		Fresh tap water not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it is what lifeguards are trained to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 what	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trained	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trained	aux:pass
8	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 what	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 trained	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it		tree rules
2	train	present · passive		lifeguards	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	do	to-infinitive	lifeguards not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, get out, tell a lifeguard and rinse with seawater; the wee trick is a myth

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 get	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lifeguard	det
8	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rinse	cc
10	rinse	rinse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 seawater	case
12	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rinse	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 myth	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trick	det
15	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trick	amod
16	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 myth	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 myth	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 myth	det
19	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get out	imperative	you not said here		out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: 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
3	rinse	infinitive	you not said here		with seawater	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the wee trick	a myth		tree rules

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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