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Test 10 · Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C

A guinea pig mother has babies on Monday. What can they do by Monday evening?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pig mother, babies · What happens: have, do · To what, where: babies

This is test 10 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

Sentence 1: A guinea pig mother has babies on Monday.

detcompoundcompoundnsubjobjcasenmodpunctrootADETguineaNOUNpigNOUNmotherNOUNhasVERBbabiesNOUNonADPMondayPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 motherdet
2guineaguineaNOUNNumber=Sing3 pigcompound
3pigpigNOUNNumber=Sing4 mothercompound
4mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing5 hasnsubj
5hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
6babiesbabyNOUNNumber=Plur5 hasobj
7ononADP_8 Mondaycase
8MondayMondayPROPNNumber=Sing6 babiesnmod
9..PUNCT_5 haspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresenta pig motherbabieson Mondayvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

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 can they do by Monday evening?

objauxnsubjcasecompoundoblpunctrootWhatPRONcanAUXtheyPRONdoVERBbyADPMondayPROPNeveningNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int4 doobj
2cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin4 doaux
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 donsubj
4dodoVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5bybyADP_7 eveningcase
6MondayMondayPROPNNumber=Sing7 eveningcompound
7eveningeveningNOUNNumber=Sing4 doobl
8??PUNCT_4 dopunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1docanbabies = babyeveningvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Run about with open eyes

advmodcaseamodoblrootRunVERBaboutADVwithADPopenADJeyesNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1RunrunVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2aboutaboutADV_1 Runadvmod
3withwithADP_5 eyescase
4openopenADJDegree=Pos5 eyesamod
5eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur1 Runobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1run aboutimperativeyou not said herewith open eyes; about propertyvn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with eye=Material

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only drink milk lying still

advmodobjacladvmodrootOnlyADVdrinkVERBmilkNOUNlyingVERBstillADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnlyonlyADV_2 drinkadvmod
2drinkdrinkVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
3milkmilkNOUNNumber=Sing2 drinkobj
4lyinglieVERBVerbForm=Ger3 milkacl
5stillstillADV_2 drinkadvmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1drinkimperativeyou not said heremilkstillvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
2liegerundmilk not said herevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Flap about and try to fly

advmodccconjmarkxcomprootFlapVERBaboutADVandCCONJtryVERBtoPARTflyVERB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FlapflapVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2aboutaboutADV_1 Flapadvmod
3andandCCONJ_4 trycc
4trytryVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin1 Flapconj
5totoPART_6 flymark
6flyflyVERBVerbForm=Inf4 tryxcomp
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1flapimperativeyou not said hereabout propertyvn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2tryinfinitiveyou not said herevn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3fly not said to happento-infinitiveyou not said herevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, they are blind for weeks

nsubjpunctnsubjcopcaseoblrootNothingPRON,PUNCTtheyPRONareAUXblindADJforADPweeksNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg5 blindnsubj
2,,PUNCT_1 Nothingpunct
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 blindnsubj
4arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 blindcop
5blindblindADJDegree=Posrootroot
6forforADP_7 weekscase
7weeksweekNOUNNumber=Plur5 blindobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentNothingweekblind propertytree 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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