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Test 4 · How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding

Lab mice that have never seen a cat still avoid a place that smells of one. Why would this help a wild mouse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lab mice, place, this · What happens: not see, avoid, smell, help · To what, where: cat, place, wild mouse

This is test 4 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: Lab mice that have never seen a cat still avoid a place that smells of one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lab	lab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mice	compound
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 avoid	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 seen	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 mice	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 avoid	advmod
10	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 avoid	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 smells	nsubj
14	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 place	acl:relcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 smells	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 avoid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	present · perfect	Lab mice	a cat					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
2	avoid	present	Lab mice	a place			still		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent place=Location
3	smell	present	a place					of one	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of one=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: Why would this help a wild mouse?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 help	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mouse	amod
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would	this		a wild mouse				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1

It does not help at all, because the smell means nothing to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 help	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 means	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 smell	det
10	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 means	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present · do-support	It			all			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	the smell	nothing				to it	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme to it=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It can avoid danger before ever meeting a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 avoid	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 avoid	aux
3	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 avoid	obj
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 meeting	mark
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 meeting	advmod
7	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 avoid	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meeting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	can	It	danger					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent danger=Location
2	meet	gerund		a cat			ever		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Co-Agent

Option 3

It helps the mouse find the cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obj
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cheese	det
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	the mouse					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mouse=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	find	infinitive	the mouse not said here	the cheese					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It makes cats like it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	cats				like it	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cat=Product

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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