Test 7 · ★ · Small creatures and creepy-crawlies
Your mum buys moth balls and swats every flying moth to save her jumpers. What would help more?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: buy, fly, save, help · To what, where: moth balls, jumpers
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 9 «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» 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 mum buys moth balls and swats every flying moth to save her jumpers.
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 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buys | nsubj |
| 3 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 balls | compound |
| 5 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buys | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 swats | cc |
| 7 | swats | swat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 balls | conj |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 moth | det |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 moth | amod |
| 10 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buys | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 save | mark |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 buys | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 jumpers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | jumpers | jumper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 save | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buys | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | Your mum | moth balls and swats | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ball=Beneficiary moth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | Your mum not said here | mum's jumpers | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jumper=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 help more?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 help | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Looking for and dealing with the caterpillars in the wool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 Looking | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dealing | cc |
| 4 | dealing | deal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Looking | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 caterpillars | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 caterpillars | det |
| 7 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dealing | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wool | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wool | det |
| 10 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dealing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | deal | gerund | the wool | with the caterpillars | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with caterpillar=Theme |
Option 2
Swatting more flying moths
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swatting | swat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 moths | amod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Swatting | advmod |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 moths | amod |
| 4 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swat | gerund | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Wearing the jumpers in the rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jumpers | det |
| 3 | jumpers | jumper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wearing | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rain | det |
| 6 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wearing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | gerund | the jumpers | the rain | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent jumper=Source |
Option 4
Putting the jumpers out in the bright sun for just one minute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jumpers | det |
| 3 | jumpers | jumper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Putting | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Putting | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sun | amod |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Putting | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 minute | case |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 minute | nummod |
| 12 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Putting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | gerund | the jumpers | the bright sun | minute | out property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jumper=Theme in sun=Destination |
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