Test 1 · Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C

«my bro says guinea pigs r just baby pigs lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 201 «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» 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 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bro	nmod:poss
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pigs	compound
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 r	nsubj
7	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 pigs	advmod
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pigs	compound
10	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 r	obj
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 r	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 r	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	4 says	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my bro						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	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, they grow into big farm pigs in a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 pigs	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pigs	amod
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pigs	compound
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	they				year	into big farm pigs result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pig=Result

Option 2

No, they are baby rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 rabbits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rabbits	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rabbits	cop
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rabbits	compound
6	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	baby rabbits					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, they are rodents from South America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 rodents	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rodents	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rodents	cop
5	rodents	rodent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 America	case
7	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 America	compound
8	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rodents	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	rodents		South America			tree rules

Option 4

Yes, they are pigs from Guinea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 pigs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pigs	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pigs	cop
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Guinea	case
7	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pigs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	pigs		Guinea			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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