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Test 7 · ★★ · Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma

After brushing stinging nettles, a boy rubs his leg hard. Why is that a mistake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: brush, sting, rub, be · To what, where: stinging nettles, leg, mistake

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: After brushing stinging nettles, a boy rubs his leg hard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 brushing	mark
2	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rubs	advcl
3	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 nettles	amod
4	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brushing	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brushing	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubs	nsubj
8	rubs	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 leg	nmod:poss
10	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubs	obj
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rubs	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rubs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	gerund	a boy not said here	stinging nettles					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nettle=Theme
2	sting	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	rub	present	a boy	boy's leg				hard property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Why is that a mistake?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 mistake	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 mistake	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mistake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a mistake					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rubbing spreads the sting further

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spreads	nsubj
2	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sting	det
4	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spreads	obj
5	further	further	ADV	_	2 spreads	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	gerund							vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	spread	present		the sting				further property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sting=Theme

Option 2

Rubbing makes the nettles grow back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nettles	det
4	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	gerund							vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	make	present							tree rules
3	grow back	present	the nettles						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Rubbing pushes the plant into your blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 pushes	nsubj
2	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plant	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 blood	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 blood	nmod:poss
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	gerund							vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	push	present		the plant		your blood			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plant=Theme into blood=Destination

Option 4

Rubbing turns the sting into a rash for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sting	det
4	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 rash	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rash	det
7	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rash	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	gerund							vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	turn	present		the sting		a rash for years			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sting=Theme into rash=Trajectory

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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