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Test 8 · ★ · Facing fears

A girl in Sydney sees a large spider in the shed. What is the safe choice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, safe choice · What happens: see, be · To what, where: large spider, shed

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 90 «Facing fears» 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 girl in Sydney sees a large spider in the shed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spider	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spider	amod
8	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 shed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shed	det
11	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a girl in Sydney	a large spider		the shed			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spider=Stimulus

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 is the safe choice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 choice	det
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 choice	amod
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Poke it with her finger to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 finger	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 finger	nmod:poss
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poke	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Poke	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here	it				with her finger	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Pick it up to show her friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pick	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friends	nmod:poss
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	show	to-infinitive	you not said here		her friends				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient

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

Keep away and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4

Ignore it and keep working there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 keep	cc
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	conj
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here						tree rules
3	work	gerund	you not said here			there			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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