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Test 11 · ★★ · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital

A monkey keeps eating the grape and spitting out the pill. What might keepers try?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkey, keepers · What happens: keep, eat, spit out, try · To what, where: grape, pill

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» of the biology 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: A monkey keeps eating the grape and spitting out the pill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grape	det
6	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spitting	cc
8	spitting	spit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 eating	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 spitting	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pill	det
11	pill	pill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spitting	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a monkey						tree rules
2	eat	gerund	a monkey not said here	the grape					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Patient
3	spit out	gerund	a monkey not said here	the pill					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pill=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.

Sentence 2: What might keepers try?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 try	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
3	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 try	nsubj
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	might	keepers						vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Stopping its medicine for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 medicine	nmod:poss
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stopping	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 good	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stopping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	gerund		its medicine				for good	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality medicine=Eventuality
2	medicine		its = it						nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Forcing the pill in by hand every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forcing	force	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pill	det
3	pill	pill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forcing	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	1 Forcing	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 hand	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forcing	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forcing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force in	gerund		the pill			day	by hand	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hiding it in a different favourite food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hiding	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 food	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 food	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
6	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		it		a different favourite food			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in food=Location

Option 4

Giving it a bigger grape with two pills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Giving	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grape	det
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grape	amod
5	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 pills	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pills	nummod
8	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Giving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		it				with two pills	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient grape=Theme

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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