Test 10 · Eyes, ears and moving your body

gonna wipe my glasses on my tshirt

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wipe · To what, where: glasses, tshirt

This is test 10 of lesson 87 «Eyes, ears and moving your body» 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	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 wipe	dep
2	wipe	wipe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 glasses	nmod:poss
4	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wipe	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 tshirt	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tshirt	nmod:poss
7	tshirt	tshirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wipe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	imperative	you not said here	my glasses		my tshirt			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent glass=Theme on tshirt=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Use a paper towel and scrub really hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 towel	det
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 towel	compound
4	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scrub	cc
6	scrub	scrub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Use	conj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scrub	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a paper towel					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent towel=Patient
2	scrub	infinitive	you not said here					hard property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2

That is the best way to clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 clean	mark
7	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the best way					tree rules
2	clean	to-infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Use water and a soft cloth, T-shirts scratch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cloth	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scratch	punct
8	T	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shirts	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 T	punct
10	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scratch	compound
11	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	water and a soft cloth and shirts scratch					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4

Lick them, then rub them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lick	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rub	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 rub	advmod
5	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lick	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rub	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
2	rub	infinitive	you not said here	them = they			then		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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