Test 9 · How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding

Why do scientists slow down their recordings of mouse songs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: slow down · To what, where: recordings

This is test 9 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 slow	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slow	nsubj
4	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 slow	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 recordings	nmod:poss
7	recordings	recording	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slow	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 songs	case
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 songs	compound
10	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 recordings	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 slow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	present · do-support	scientists	scientists's recordings of mouse songs					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent recording=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 · ✓ the right answer

The songs are too high for people to hear at normal speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 songs	det
2	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 high	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 high	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 hear	mark
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hear	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hear	mark
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 high	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 speed	case
11	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 speed	amod
12	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the songs					high property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	people			normal speed			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The mice sing far too fast for any scientist to write down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mice	det
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	nsubj
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fast	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 sing	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 scientist	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 scientist	det
9	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 write	mark
11	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sing	advcl
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 write	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the mice					for any scientist; fast property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for scientist=Recipient
2	write down	to-infinitive	the mice not said here						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To make the mice sing better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sing	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mice	det
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the mice					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouse=Product
2	sing speech: express	present						well property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Slow songs keep the mice warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 songs	amod
2	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mice	det
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Slow songs	the mice				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

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