Test 7 · How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding

«Stuart Little drives a little car and wears clothes» What is a real mouse's way of getting around fast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Stuart Little, way · What happens: drive, wear, be, get around · To what, where: little car, clothes, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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 drives	punct
2	Stuart	Stuart	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Little	compound
3	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drives	nsubj
4	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 way	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 car	amod
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drives	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wears	cc
9	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drives	conj
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 wears	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 drives	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 way	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 way	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mouse	det
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mouse	amod
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 way	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 mouse	case
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 getting	mark
20	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 way	acl
21	around	around	ADV	_	20 getting	advmod
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 getting	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drive in a quote	present	Stuart Little	a little car		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory
2	wear in a quote	present	Stuart Little not said here	clothes		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source
3	is a	present		a real mouse's way		tree rules
4	get around	gerund	a real mouse's way not said here		around, fast property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice

Flying with its ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 ears	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ears	nmod:poss
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Flying	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Running along walls, climbing and jumping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	along	along	ADP	_	3 walls	case
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Running	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 climbing	punct
5	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Running	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jumping	cc
7	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Running	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	where	roles by
1	run	gerund	walls	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along wall=Trajectory
2	climb	gerund		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jump	gerund		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Driving tiny cars along the skirting board

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cars	amod
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Driving	obj
4	along	along	ADP	_	7 board	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 board	det
6	skirting	skirting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 board	compound
7	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Driving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	gerund		tiny cars		the skirting board			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent car=Theme along board=Trajectory

Option 4

Riding on cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 cats	case
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund						on cats	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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