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.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mother | det |
| 2 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pig | compound |
| 3 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | compound |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Monday | case |
| 8 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 babies | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a pig mother | babies | on Monday | vn 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?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 evening | case |
| 6 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 evening | compound |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | babies = baby | evening | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Run about with open eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Run | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run about | imperative | you not said here | with open eyes; about property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with eye=Material |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Only drink milk lying still
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 drink | advmod |
| 2 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drink | obj |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 milk | acl |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 drink | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | imperative | you not said here | milk | still | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | milk not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Flap about and try to fly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flap | flap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 1 Flap | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 try | cc |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Flap | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fly | mark |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | imperative | you not said here | about property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | try | infinitive | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nothing, they are blind for weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 blind | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blind | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blind | cop |
| 5 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 weeks | case |
| 7 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blind | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | week | blind property | 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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