Test 10 · Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like

«pigs are thick, they just eat» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: pigs · What happens: be, eat

This is test 10 of lesson 138 «Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like» 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 thick	punct
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thick	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	cop
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 eat	advmod
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thick	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	pigs	thick property	tree rules
2	eat in a quote	present	pigs = pig		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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

Pigs only know how to eat and sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 know	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 know	advmod
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 eat	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sleep	cc
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	know	present	Pigs	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	eat	to-infinitive		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	infinitive		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Pigs cannot learn anything at all, not even their own names or where food is

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 learn	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 learn	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 names	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 names	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	13 names	advmod
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 names	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 names	amod
13	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 where	cc
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 names	nmod
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 where	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	Pigs	anything	all		tree rules
2	is	present	food			where property	tree rules
3	name		Pigs = pig				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pigs can learn their names, remember hidden food and even use a joystick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 names	nmod:poss
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 remember	punct
7	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	conj
8	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remember	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 use	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 use	advmod
12	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 joystick	det
14	joystick	joystick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	can	Pigs	Pigs's names	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	remember	infinitive	Pigs not said here	hidden food	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	use	infinitive	Pigs not said here	a joystick	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joystick=Patient
4	name		Pigs = pig		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Pigs are cleverer than any person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cleverer	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cleverer	cop
3	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 person	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleverer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pigs					than any person; clever property	tree rules

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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