Test 5 · Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks

«ew my rabbit's eating its poo, is it sick??» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rabbit, it · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: poo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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

Sentence 1: «ew my rabbit's eating its poo, is it sick??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 eating	punct
2	ew	ew	INTJ	Number=Sing	6 eating	discourse
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rabbit	nmod:poss
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eating	aux
6	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sick	csubj
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 poo	nmod:poss
8	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eating	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sick	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sick	nsubj
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	??	??	PUNCT	_	12 sick	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present · progressive	my rabbit	rabbit's poo					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	it					sick 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.

Sentence 2: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is starving and has nothing else to eat in its cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 starving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 starving	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 starving	aux
5	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 has	cc
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 starving	conj
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 has	obj
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 nothing	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cage	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cage	nmod:poss
14	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	starve	present · progressive	it			tree rules
2	have	present		nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive		nothing not said here	its cage	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is normal; it digests its food twice to get more goodness

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 normal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 digests	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 digests	nsubj
6	digests	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 get	advcl
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 digests	obj
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 get	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	parataxis
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 goodness	amod
13	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		normal property	tree rules
2	digest	present	it	its food		tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive		more goodness	twice property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goodness=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, take it to the vet at once, it must have a tummy bug

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 vet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vet	det
7	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 take	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bug	det
15	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bug	compound
16	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it		the vet			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to vet=Destination
2	have	must	vet	a tummy bug					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient

Option 4

Yes, it has lost its mind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mind	nmod:poss
7	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect · passive		it					tree rules
2	mind		its = it						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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