Test 17 · ★ · Sun, cold and growing up

heard a kid in Minnesota licked a frozen flagpole n his tongue came OFF, like fully off

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, frozen flagpole · What happens: hear, lick, freeze, come off

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 86 «Sun, cold and growing up» 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 licked	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 licked	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Minnesota	case
5	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kid	nmod
6	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 flagpole	det
8	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 flagpole	amod
9	flagpole	flagpole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
10	n	n	ADV	_	12 tongue	advmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tongue	nmod:poss
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 licked	ccomp
14	OFF	off	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fully	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 fully	case
17	fully	fully	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
18	off	off	ADV	_	17 fully	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	past	a kid in Minnesota not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	lick	past	a kid in Minnesota		tree rules
3	freeze	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	come off	past	a frozen flagpole	fully, off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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.

The options

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

The tongue can stick and the skin tear, so never lick frozen metal; fully off is exaggerated

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tongue	det
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stick	aux
4	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tear	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tear	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tear	compound
8	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lick	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 lick	advmod
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 lick	advmod
12	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stick	conj
13	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 metal	amod
14	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lick	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 stick	punct
16	fully	fully	ADV	_	17 off	advmod
17	off	off	ADV	_	19 exaggerated	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 exaggerated	aux:pass
19	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stick	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stick	can	the tongue			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	not lick	infinitive	the tongue not said here	frozen metal		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent metal=Theme
3	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	exaggerate	present · passive	the tongue not said here		off property	tree rules

Option 2

It is a made-up story, frozen metal is safe to lick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 story	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 safe	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 story	punct
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 story	acl
10	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frozen	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 lick	mark
14	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 safe	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	It	a made story		tree rules
3	freeze	participle	a made story not said here	metal		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient metal=Result
4	is	present	a made story		safe property	tree rules
5	lick	to-infinitive	a made story not said here			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is true, frozen metal always pulls whole tongues off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pulls	punct
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 metal	amod
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulls	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 pulls	advmod
8	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	advcl
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tongues	amod
10	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pulls	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	8 pulls	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		true property	tree rules
2	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	pull off	present	frozen metal	whole tongues	always property	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Eventuality

Option 4

It only happens with flagpoles, not other frozen metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 flagpoles	case
5	flagpoles	flagpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happens	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 metal	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 other	advmod
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 metal	amod
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 metal	amod
10	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It	other frozen metal				with flagpoles	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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