Test 11 · How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding

«mouse fell in the tall bucket, it's stuck lol» Is it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mouse · What happens: fall, be · To what, where: tall bucket, stuck lol, lol

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 bucket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bucket	det
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bucket	amod
7	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lol	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lol	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lol	cop
11	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lol	amod
12	lol	lol	NOUN	_	3 fell	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
14	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 it	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fall in a quote	past	mouse		the tall bucket	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bucket=Location
2	is a in a quote	present	mouse	stuck lol		tree rules
3	is a	present		lol		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

Option 1

No, mice can fly out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 fly	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly out	can	mice						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Maybe not, a mouse can jump about 30 centimetres straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	2 not	advmod
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 jump	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 not	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jump	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 jump	aux
7	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 30	advmod
9	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 centimetres	nummod
10	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jump	obj
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 up	advmod
12	up	up	ADV	_	7 jump	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not jump about	can	a mouse	30 centimetres					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme centimetre=Trajectory

Option 3

Yes, mice can never jump at all, not even a few centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 jump	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jump	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 jump	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 jump	advmod
6	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 jump	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 centimetres	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 centimetres	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 centimetres	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 centimetres	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 centimetres	amod
14	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not jump	can	mice	a few centimetres		all			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 4

Yes, mice are too heavy to climb, so it will stay there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 heavy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heavy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 climb	mark
8	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heavy	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 stay	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stay	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	aux
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heavy	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	mice		heavy property	tree rules
2	climb	to-infinitive	mice not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stay	future	it	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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