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Test 3 · ★ · Birds and baby animals

Your friend says, "I touched a chick by accident, now it's doomed!" What do you tell her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, you · What happens: say, touch, doom, tell · To what, where: chick, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 10 «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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: Your friend says, "I touched a chick by accident, now it's doomed!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 touched	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 touched	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 touched	nsubj
7	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chick	det
9	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touched	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 accident	case
11	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touched	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 doomed	punct
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 doomed	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 doomed	nsubj:pass
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 doomed	aux
16	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 doomed	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 doomed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	touch in a quote	past	Your friend = friend	a chick				by accident	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chick=Experiencer by accident=Theme
3	doom in a quote	present · passive		friend			now		tree rules

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 do you tell her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	you		chick				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Wash the chick with soap to remove your smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chick	det
3	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 soap	case
5	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 remove	mark
7	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wash	advcl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 smell	nmod:poss
9	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remove	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	the chick				with soap	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chick=Patient with soap=Instrument
2	remove	to-infinitive	you not said here	your smell					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme
3	smell		your						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Its parents won't smell you; but leave it now so they can come back

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smell	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 smell	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 smell	advmod
5	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 smell	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 leave	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 leave	cc
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 smell	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leave	obj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 leave	advmod
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 smell	advcl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not smell	future	Its parents	you					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	leave	infinitive	Its parents not said here	it			now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	come back	can	parents = parent						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, it's doomed forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 doomed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doomed	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doomed	aux
5	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 doomed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doom	present · passive		it				forever property	tree rules

Option 4

Paint it so the mum doesn't notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Paint	obj
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 notice	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mum	det
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notice	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 notice	advmod
8	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Paint	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	imperative	you not said here	it					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
2	not notice	present · do-support	the mum						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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