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Test 1 · How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding

«saw one mouse in the shed last month, now there's loads, how??» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: loads, best answer · What happens: see, shed, be · To what, where: one mouse

This is test 1 of lesson 120 «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» 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: «saw one mouse in the shed last month, now there's loads, how??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 mouse	nummod
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 month	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 month	det
7	shed	shed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 month	amod
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 month	amod
9	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 's	punct
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 's	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 's	expl
13	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
14	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 's	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 how	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 loads	conj
17	??	??	PUNCT	_	13 's	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past		one mouse			month		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus
2	shed in a quote	participle							vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	does in a quote	present	loads			there	now		vn exist-47.1 «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.

Sentence 2: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The first mouse called all its friends from town to come and live there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 mouse	amod
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mouse	acl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 friends	det:predet
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friends	nmod:poss
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 town	case
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 friends	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 come	mark
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 friends	acl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 live	cc
13	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the first mouse not said here	mouse's friends from town					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	to-infinitive	the first mouse not said here	mouse's friends from town not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	infinitive	the first mouse not said here			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Mice split in two like cells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 split	nsubj
2	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 two	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 split	obl
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 cells	case
6	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	present	Mice			two		like cells	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mice can have six to eight babies every few weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 babies	nummod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 eight	case
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 six	nmod
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 weeks	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weeks	amod
10	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	can	Mice	six babies			week		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

Option 4

They were all hiding there quietly for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hiding	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hiding	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 hiding	advmod
4	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hiding	advmod
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 hiding	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	They			there	year	all, quietly property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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