Test 6 · ★★ · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital

«found a hedgehog in the road, it's hurt» What is the best thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: best thing · What happens: find, hurt, be, do · To what, where: hedgehog, road · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hedgehog	det
4	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hurt	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurt	nsubj:pass
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hurt	aux:pass
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	ccomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 hurt	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 found	parataxis
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thing	acl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a hedgehog	the road	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Attribute clause=Theme
2	hurt in a quote	present · passive		hedgehog		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	present	the best thing			tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Give it a bowl of milk and go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bowl	det
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 milk	case
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowl	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a bowl of milk	it				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient bowl=Theme
2	go	infinitive	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Keep it as a pet in your room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 pet	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pet	det
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 room	nmod:poss
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it		your room		as a pet	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in room=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Leave it in the road so it can walk off when it feels better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 walk	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 walk	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 walk	aux
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 walk	compound:prt
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 feels	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feels	nsubj
13	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 walk	advcl
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it	the road		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in road=Location
2	walk off	can	road				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	present	road			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ask an adult to call a wildlife hospital or rescue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 call	mark
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hospital	det
7	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hospital	compound
8	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 rescue	cc
10	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hospital	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	call not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a wildlife hospital or rescue					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hospital=Recipient

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