Test 2 · How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding

«mice are filthy, they never wash» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mice · What happens: be, not wash

This is test 2 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	_	4 filthy	punct
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 filthy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 filthy	cop
4	filthy	filthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wash	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wash	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 wash	advmod
8	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 filthy	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 wash	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wash	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 filthy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	mice	filthy property	tree rules
2	not wash in a quote	present	mice = mouse		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		right property	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

Mice wash only in the bath, when people leave some water in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wash	nsubj
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 bath	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bath	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bath	det
6	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wash	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 leave	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 leave	mark
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 leave	nsubj
10	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wash	conj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present	Mice			the bath			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	present	people	some water		water			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in it=Location

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

Mice groom many times a day, though wild ones can still carry germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 groom	nsubj
2	groom	groom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 times	amod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 groom	obl:unmarked
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 times	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carry	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 carry	mark
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carry	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 carry	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 carry	advmod
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 groom	conj
14	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	groom	present	Mice				time		vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	carry	can	wild ones	germs			still		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 3

Mice are very clean, so even wild ones never carry any germs at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clean	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clean	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 clean	advmod
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carry	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 carry	advmod
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 ones	advmod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carry	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 carry	advmod
11	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clean	conj
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 germs	det
13	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carry	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mice					clean property	tree rules
2	not carry	present	wild ones	any germs		all			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 4

Yes, mice never clean themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 clean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clean	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 clean	advmod
5	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not clean	present	mice	mice = mouse					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

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