Test 9 · Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks

«rabbit just jumped and twisted mid air, is it having a fit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rabbit · What happens: jump, twist, have, be · To what, where: fit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	_	4 jumped	punct
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 jumped	advmod
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 twisted	cc
6	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jumped	conj
7	mid	mid	X	_	6 twisted	parataxis
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mid	goeswith
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 having	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 having	aux
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 having	nsubj
12	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 jumped	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fit	det
14	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 having	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jumped	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump in a quote	past	rabbit			tree rules
2	twist in a quote	past	rabbit not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	have in a quote	present · progressive	rabbit	a fit		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient
4	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

It has a sore back

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 back	det
4	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 back	amod
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	a sore back					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a happy binky; it feels safe and lively

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	5 binky	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 binky	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 binky	det
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 binky	amod
5	binky	binky	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 feels	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feels	nsubj
8	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 binky	acl:relcl
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feels	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lively	cc
11	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 safe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a happy binky					tree rules
2	feel	present	binky	a happy binky not said here				safe property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent binky=Theme

Option 3

It is trying to scare you away from its cage

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 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 scare	mark
5	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 scare	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 scare	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 cage	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cage	nmod:poss
10	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	scare not said to happen	to-infinitive		you				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, call a vet at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 call	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vet	det
5	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	a vet					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent vet=Theme at once=Stimulus

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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