Test 7 · ★★ · Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never sto…

«pick him up by the ears like the magician did» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ears · What happens: pick up, do, be · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 pick	punct
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pick	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 pick	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 ears	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ears	det
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 did	nsubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 magician	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 magician	det
10	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ears	nmod
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pick	advcl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 pick	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pick	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick up in a quote	imperative	you not said here	him = he		tree rules
2	do in a quote	past	the ears like the magician			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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

Yes, but only for small rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 rabbits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 rabbits	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 rabbits	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 rabbits	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rabbits	amod
7	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Never, lift him with one hand under the chest and one under the bottom

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 lift	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lift	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hand	nummod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	obl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 chest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chest	det
10	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 chest	conj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 bottom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bottom	det
15	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lift	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the chest		with one hand; under the bottom	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme under chest=Destination under bottom=Initial_Location

Option 3

Yes, ears are handles, and that is why rabbits have such long ones

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 ears	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 handles	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 handles	cop
5	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 why	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 why	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 why	cop
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 have	advmod
11	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 handles	parataxis
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ears	handles		tree rules
2	is	present	that		why property	tree rules
3	have	present	rabbits	such long ones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 4

No, pick him up by the tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 pick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pick	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 pick	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 tail	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tail	det
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	him = he				by the tail	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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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