Test 1 · ★ · Robots at work and at home

«robot vacuum ate my sock again, it's out to get me» What is really going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robot vacuum, vacuum · What happens: eat, be, get, go on · To what, where: sock, me

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 39 «Robots at work and at home» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
2	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vacuum	compound
3	vacuum	vacuum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sock	nmod:poss
6	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 out	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 out	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 out	cop
11	out	out	ADV	_	4 ate	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 out	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 get	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 going	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 going	advmod
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ate	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 going	compound:prt
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	robot vacuum	my sock	again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	vacuum			out property	tree rules
3	get in a quote	to-infinitive	vacuum not said here	me			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	go on	present · progressive					vn function-105.2.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

It hunts socks on purpose

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 hunts	nsubj
2	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunts	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 purpose	case
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	It	socks		purpose			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sock=Theme on purpose=Location

Option 2

It is angry with 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	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					with you; angry property	tree rules

Option 3

It eats socks for fuel

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 fuel	case
5	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	socks				for fuel	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It cannot tell a sock from the floor, so pick small things up first

The tree, 15 words

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 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sock	det
6	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pick	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 pick	advmod
12	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pick	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	12 pick	compound:prt
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 pick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	It	a sock		the floor			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sock=Recipient
2	pick up	infinitive		small things				first property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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