Test 1 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

«Jerry from Tom and Jerry is like 80 years old, mice live forever lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jerry, mice · What happens: be, live · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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	_	2 Jerry	punct
2	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 old	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Tom	case
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jerry	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Jerry	cc
6	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tom	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 old	cop
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 old	obl:unmarked
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 live	punct
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 live	nsubj
14	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 old	advcl
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	14 live	advmod
16	lol	lol	INTJ	_	14 live	discourse
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 old	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Jerry from Tom and Jerry	year	old property	tree rules
2	live in a quote	present	mice		forever property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Real house mice live only a few years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mice	amod
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mice	compound
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 years	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 years	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Real house mice				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Mice live exactly eighty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 eighty	advmod
4	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Mice				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Right, mice can live for many centuries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 live	aux
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 centuries	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 centuries	amod
8	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	can	mice				century		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Mice never get old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 get	advmod
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	Mice					old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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