Test 3 · ★★ · Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never sto…

«ew the rabbit's eating its own poo, it's sick!» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: own poo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 200 «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» 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: «ew the rabbit's eating its own poo, it's sick!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 eating	punct
2	ew	ew	INTJ	Number=Sing	6 eating	discourse
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 rabbit	case
6	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 sick	csubj
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 poo	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 poo	amod
9	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eating	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sick	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sick	cop
13	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 sick	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	gerund		rabbit's own poo					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	it					sick 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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It is very ill and dying, so it must go to the vet straight away tonight

The tree, 16 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 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dying	cc
6	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ill	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ill	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 vet	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vet	det
14	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 away	advmod
16	away	away	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
17	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			ill property	tree rules
2	die	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	go	must	it	the vet	tonight	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to vet=Initial_Location

Option 2

It is copying the dog

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	3 copying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 copying	aux
3	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present · progressive	It	the dog					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

Option 3

It is starving

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	3 starving	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 starving	aux
3	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	present · progressive	It						tree rules

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

It is normal; it eats special soft droppings to digest food again

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	3 normal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 eats	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	parataxis
7	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 droppings	amod
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 droppings	amod
9	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eats	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 digest	mark
11	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eats	advcl
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 digest	obj
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 digest	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			normal property	tree rules
2	eat	present	it	special soft droppings			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Patient
3	digest	to-infinitive		food	again		tree rules

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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