Test 8 · ★★ · Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never sto…

«the bunny keeps thumping its foot, is it doing a dance» What is it doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bunny · What happens: keep, thump, do · To what, where: foot, dance

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	4 keeps	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bunny	det
3	bunny	bunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thumping	thump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 foot	nmod:poss
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thumping	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 doing	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 doing	nsubj
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 keeps	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dance	det
13	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doing	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 doing	obj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 doing	aux
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 doing	nsubj
18	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 keeps	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	the bunny		tree rules
2	thump in a quote	gerund	the bunny not said here	bunny's foot	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
3	do in a quote	present · progressive	bunny	a dance	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality
4	do	present · progressive	bunny		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Warning of danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 danger	case
3	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Warning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn			danger					nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Asking for carrots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 carrots	case
3	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund						for carrots	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Dancing to the music on the radio

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 music	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 music	det
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 radio	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 radio	det
7	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				the radio		to the music	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on radio=Location

Option 4

Practising for running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practising	practise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	SCONJ	_	3 running	mark
3	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Practising	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	gerund							tree rules
2	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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