--- title: touched a weird plant, my hand's red and itchy — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics description: touched a weird plant, my hand's red and itchy Test 15 · ★ of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/t15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Plants that sting, scratch and poison](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/) / t15 # Test 15 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison touched a weird plant, my hand's red and itchy **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** touch, be · **To what, where:** weird plant This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/#t15). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t15:1 # text = touched a weird plant, my hand's red and itchy 1 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 itchy itchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past | | a weird plant | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plant=Co-Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | my hand | | | | | red *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | my hand *not said here* | | | | | | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Ignore it, it's only a rash, it'll go ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t15:o1:1 # text = Ignore it, it's only a rash, it'll go 1 Ignore ignore VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rash rash NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | it | a rash | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | future | rash | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Rub it off on your face ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t15:o2:1 # text = Rub it off on your face 1 Rub rub VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rub off** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | your face | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on face=Destination | ### Option 3 {#o3} Scratch it hard until it stops itching ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t15:o3:1 # text = Scratch it hard until it stops itching 1 Scratch scratch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 4 until until SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 7 itching itch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scratch** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | hard *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | present | it | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **itch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Wash it with soap and water and tell an adult ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t15:o4:1 # text = Wash it with soap and water and tell an adult 1 Wash wash VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | with soap and water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with soap=Instrument | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | **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. 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