Test 9 · Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls

«why's that rabbit drumming its foot, is it angry with me» What is it most likely doing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: rabbit, it · What happens: drum, be · To what, where: foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 143 «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» 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	_	6 drumming	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 drumming	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 drumming	aux
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 rabbit	det
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drumming	nsubj
6	drumming	drum	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 angry	csubj
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 foot	nmod:poss
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drumming	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drumming	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 angry	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 angry	nsubj
12	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 angry	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 angry	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 doing	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 doing	cop
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 doing	nsubj
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 likely	advmod
20	likely	likely	ADV	_	21 doing	advmod
21	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 angry	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 angry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drum in a quote	present · progressive	that rabbit	rabbit's foot		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	it		with me; angry property	tree rules
3	is	present	rabbit		do, likely 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

Asking for a carrot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 carrot	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 carrot	det
4	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund						for a carrot	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Saying hello to you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Saying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		hello	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hello=Topic to you=Recipient

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

Warning other rabbits that danger is near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warning	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 near	csubj
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rabbits	amod
3	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Warning	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 danger	det
5	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rabbits	nmod:unmarked
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 near	cop
7	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	gerund			other rabbits that danger				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient
2	is	present	Warning					near property	tree rules

Option 4

Dancing to music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 music	case
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				music			vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to music=Trajectory

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