Test 3 · The city as a habitat
In a cartoon a rat lives in a palace kitchen and cooks food. What is true about real rats?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rat · What happens: live, cook, be · To what, where: cartoon, food
This is test 3 of lesson 14 «The city as a habitat» 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: In a cartoon a rat lives in a palace kitchen and cooks food.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rat | det |
| 5 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 kitchen | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kitchen | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kitchen | compound |
| 10 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cooks | cc |
| 12 | cooks | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lives | conj |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cooks | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a rat | a cartoon | in a palace kitchen | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | cook | present | a rat not said here | food | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=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.
Sentence 2: What is true about real rats?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 rats | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rats | amod |
| 6 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 true | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about real rats; true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They eat almost anything from bins and drains and can carry disease
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 anything | advmod |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 eat | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 bins | case |
| 6 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 anything | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drains | cc |
| 8 | drains | drain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bins | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carry | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 carry | aux |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 eat | conj |
| 12 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | They | anything | bins and drains | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | |||
| 2 | carry | can | They not said here | disease | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme |
Option 2
They cannot squeeze through holes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 squeeze | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 squeeze | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 squeeze | advmod |
| 4 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 holes | case |
| 6 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 squeeze | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not squeeze | can | They | holes | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through hole=Trajectory |
Option 3
They are fussy and eat only cheese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fussy | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fussy | cop |
| 3 | fussy | fussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 eat | cc |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fussy | conj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 cheese | advmod |
| 7 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | fussy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | They not said here | cheese | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient |
Option 4
They live only in deep forests far from people and never come near towns or houses
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 forests | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 forests | case |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forests | amod |
| 6 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 people | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 come | advmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 live | conj |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 towns | case |
| 14 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 houses | cc |
| 16 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 towns | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | They | deep forests | from people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 2 | not come | infinitive | They not said here | towns or houses | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near town=Location |
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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