Test 8 · Kitchen and garden dangers
shut up and help me feed this shredder, use both hands. What's the rule?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, me, rule · What happens: shut up, help, feed, use, be · To what, where: me, shredder, hands
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: shut up and help me feed this shredder, use both hands.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 shut | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 help | cc |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 shut | conj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 shredder | det |
| 8 | shredder | shredder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 use | punct |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 shut | conj |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 hands | det |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 use | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 shut | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | imperative | you not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | help | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | infinitive | me not said here | this shredder | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shredder=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | use | infinitive | you not said here | both hands | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
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's the rule?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rule | det |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the rule | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Push the paper in with your fingers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Push | push | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 paper | det |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Push | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 1 Push | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fingers | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Push | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push in | imperative | you not said here | the paper | with your fingers | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme |
Option 2
Use a ruler to push it deeper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ruler | det |
| 3 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Use | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 push | mark |
| 5 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Use | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 push | obj |
| 7 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 push | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | a ruler | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=Patient | ||||
| 2 | push | to-infinitive | you not said here | ruler | deep property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Keep fingers, hair and sleeves away, and don't use it alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hair | punct |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fingers | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sleeves | cc |
| 6 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fingers | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 use | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 use | cc |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 use | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 use | advmod |
| 12 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 use | obj |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 use | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | fingers and hair and sleeves | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | |||
| 2 | not use | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | hair | alone property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4
Wear a tie so you look smart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tie | det |
| 3 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wear | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 look | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 look | nsubj |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wear | advcl |
| 7 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | imperative | you not said here | a tie | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tie=Source | ||||
| 2 | look | present | you | smart property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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