Test 2 · ★ · Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs

«pigs are thick, they just roll in mud all day» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pigs · What happens: be, roll · To what, where: mud

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 144 «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» 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 roll	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 roll	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 roll	advmod
8	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 mud	case
10	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roll	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roll	obl:unmarked
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thick	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	pigs			thick property	tree rules
2	roll in a quote	present	pigs = pig	mud	day		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory
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

No, pigs are clever only when they are piglets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clever	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 piglets	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 piglets	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 piglets	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 piglets	cop
10	piglets	piglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clever	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	pigs					clever property	tree rules
2	is a	present	pigs = pig	piglets					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, pigs cannot learn anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 learn	advmod
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	pigs	anything					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 3

Yes, pigs are the slowest learners on a farm and never learn tricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 learners	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 learners	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 learners	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 learners	det
6	slowest	slow	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 learners	amod
7	learners	learner	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 learn	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 farm	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 farm	det
10	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learners	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 learners	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 learn	advmod
13	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	pigs	the slowest learners		a farm			tree rules
2	not learn	present	the slowest learners	tricks					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pigs are clever, solving puzzles as well as many dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clever	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 solving	punct
5	solving	solve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 clever	advcl
6	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 solving	obj
7	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	11 dogs	cc
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 as	fixed
9	as	as	ADP	_	7 as	fixed
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dogs	amod
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pigs					clever property	tree rules
2	solve	gerund	Pigs not said here	puzzles					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic

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