Test 11 · Kitchen and garden dangers

Why does everyone stand far away when the strimmer is going?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, strimmer · What happens: stand, go

This is test 11 of lesson 15 «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stand	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 stand	nsubj
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 stand	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 going	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 strimmer	det
9	strimmer	strimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 going	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stand	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present · do-support	everyone					away property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	present · progressive	the strimmer						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

It might run out of string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 string	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 string	case
6	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	might	It			string			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out string=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It throws stones and bits that can hit you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 throws	nsubj
2	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 throws	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bits	cc
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stones	conj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hit	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	aux
8	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stones	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	present	It	stones and bits					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	hit	can	stones and bits	you					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme

Option 3

It blows cold air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blows	nsubj
2	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 air	amod
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	It	cold air					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient

Option 4

It is too loud to be near without ear muffs on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loud	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 near	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 near	cop
7	near	near	ADV	_	4 loud	advcl
8	without	without	ADP	_	10 muffs	case
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 muffs	compound
10	muffs	muff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loud	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 muffs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					without ear muffs; loud property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						near property	tree rules

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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