Test 2 · ★★ · Food on the floor and kitchen rules
Your phone falls in the bath and your nan grabs the rice. What would really help?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phone, nan · What happens: fall, grab, help · To what, where: bath, rice
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» 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 phone falls in the bath and your nan grabs the rice.
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 phone | nmod:poss |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bath | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bath | det |
| 6 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grabs | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nan | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grabs | nsubj |
| 10 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 falls | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rice | det |
| 12 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grabs | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 falls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Your phone | the bath | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bath=Location | ||||
| 2 | grab | present | your nan | the rice | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=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.
Sentence 2: What would really help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Blow it dry with a hairdryer on the very hottest setting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Blow | obj |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Blow | xcomp |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hairdryer | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hairdryer | det |
| 6 | hairdryer | hairdryer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blow | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 setting | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 setting | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 hottest | advmod |
| 10 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 setting | amod |
| 11 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | imperative | you not said here | it | the hottest setting | with a hairdryer; dry property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
Shake it hard and turn it on to check
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Shake | obj |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Shake | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 turn | cc |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shake | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 turn | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 check | mark |
| 9 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turn | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | it | hard property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | turn on | present | you not said here | it | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | check | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Switch it off and let it dry in the air, not on charge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Switch | switch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Switch | obj |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Switch | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 let | cc |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Switch | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 charge | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 charge | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 charge | case |
| 14 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Switch | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | switch off | imperative | you not said here | it | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dry | infinitive | the air | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Put it in rice and keep it charging
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 rice | case |
| 4 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 keep | cc |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | charging | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | it | rice | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in rice=Destination | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | rice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | charge | gerund | rice not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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