Test 8 · ★ · Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»

Lucas shouts, «I'm gonna kill that fox!» What is the wise answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lucas, wise answer · What happens: shout, be · To what, where: gonna kill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 57 «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics 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: Lucas shouts, «I'm gonna kill that fox!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucas	Lucas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shouts	nsubj
2	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 kill	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kill	cop
7	gonna	gonna	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kill	amod
8	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouts	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	conj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Lucas						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Lucas	gonna kill and that fox					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 is the wise answer?

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 answer	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	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 wise answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, go out and kill every single fox in the county

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kill	cc
6	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 fox	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fox	amod
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 county	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 county	det
12	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	imperative	you not said here					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kill	infinitive	you not said here	every single fox		the county			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme

Option 2

Blame the chickens for being far too slow to escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chickens	det
3	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Blame	obj
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 slow	mark
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 slow	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 slow	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 slow	advmod
8	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Blame	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 escape	mark
10	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 slow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	the chickens		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme
2	is	gerund	you not said here		far, slow property	tree rules
3	escape	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Anger is normal, but fix the fence, not the fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 normal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fix	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 fix	cc
6	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 normal	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fence	det
8	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fix	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fox	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fox	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fox	det
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fence	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Anger					normal property	tree rules
2	fix	infinitive	Anger not said here	the fence and the fox					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fence=Patient

Option 4

Get a pet fox instead, so it guards the chickens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fox	det
3	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fox	compound
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 guards	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 guards	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 guards	nsubj
9	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chickens	det
11	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 guards	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	a pet fox				instead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus
2	guard	present	fox		the chickens				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Beneficiary

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