Test 2 · Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules

«donkeys are stubborn as hell, mine just stopped dead on the path» What is most likely?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: donkeys, mine · What happens: be, stop · To what, where: path

This is test 2 of lesson 145 «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» 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 stubborn	punct
2	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stubborn	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stubborn	cop
4	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 hell	case
6	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stubborn	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct
8	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stopped	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 stopped	advmod
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stubborn	parataxis
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stopped	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 path	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 path	det
14	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 path	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 likely	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 likely	cop
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 likely	advmod
19	likely	likely	ADV	_	10 stopped	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stubborn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	donkeys		as hell; stubborn property	tree rules
2	stop in a quote	past	mine	the path	dead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	present			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

It hates its owner

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 hates	nsubj
2	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 owner	nmod:poss
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	It	its owner					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer owner=Stimulus

Option 2

It forgot where it was going

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 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 going	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 forgot	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	It						tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	it						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It was being lazy on purpose because it did not want to carry the load

The tree, 15 words

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	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lazy	cop
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lazy	obl
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 want	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 want	advmod
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lazy	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 carry	mark
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 want	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 load	det
15	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · progressive	It		purpose	lazy property	tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	purpose				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	purpose not said here	the load			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme

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

It saw something that looked dangerous and stopped to check

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 saw	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 something	acl:relcl
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stopped	cc
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 check	mark
10	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	It	something		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	look	past			dangerous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	stop	past				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	check	to-infinitive				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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