Test 1 · Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks

«my rabbit's fave food is carrots, he gets a whole bag a day» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: food carrots · What happens: be, get · To what, where: food carrots, whole bag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 123 «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» 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	_	8 carrots	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 rabbit	nmod:poss
3	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fave	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 rabbit	case
5	fave	fave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	compound
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrots	compound
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 carrots	cop
8	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gets	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 carrots	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gets	nsubj
11	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bag	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bag	amod
14	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gets	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gets	obl:unmarked
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gets	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		food carrots			tree rules
2	get in a quote	present	food carrots	a whole bag	day		tree rules
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 · ← Mova's choice

Fine, but peel them first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peel	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 peel	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 peel	cc
4	peel	peel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 peel	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 peel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peel	imperative	you not said here	them = they				first property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Too much sugar; hay and grass first, carrots only as a small treat

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sugar	amod
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 hay	punct
5	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sugar	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grass	cc
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hay	conj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 grass	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carrots	punct
10	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sugar	conj
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 treat	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	15 treat	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 treat	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 treat	amod
15	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carrots	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Fine, if they are washed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 washed	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 washed	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 washed	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 washed	aux:pass
6	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present · passive		they					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Perfect, carrots are all a rabbit needs to stay healthy and strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carrots	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Perfect	punct
3	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 needs	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 needs	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 needs	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rabbit	det
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needs	nsubj
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stay	mark
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 needs	xcomp
11	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stay	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 strong	cc
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 healthy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Perfect carrots					all, need property	tree rules
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	Perfect carrots not said here					healthy property	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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