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Test 8 · ★ · Sun, cold and growing up

A boy squeezes a spot on his nose. What may happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: squeeze, happen · To what, where: spot, nose

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy squeezes a spot on his nose.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeezes	nsubj
3	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spot	det
5	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeezes	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 nose	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nose	nmod:poss
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeezes	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 squeezes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	present	a boy	a spot		boy's nose			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent spot=Theme on nose=Trajectory

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: What may happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	may							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Nothing at all can happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 happen	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	can	Nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It stops new spots from growing

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	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spots	amod
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stops	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 growing	mark
6	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stops	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	new spots					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality spot=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can cause a scar or infection

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 cause	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	aux
3	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 scar	det
5	scar	scar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 infection	cc
7	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scar	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	can	It	a scar or infection					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition scar=Patient

Option 4

It makes the spot disappear for ever

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	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 spot	det
4	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 disappear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the spot					tree rules
2	disappear	infinitive	the spot not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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