Test 2 · Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C
In a cartoon a guinea pig swings its long fluffy tail. What is wrong with the cartoon?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: guinea pig · What happens: swing, be · To what, where: long fluffy tail, cartoon
This is test 2 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: In a cartoon a guinea pig swings its long fluffy tail.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swings | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pig | det |
| 5 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pig | compound |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swings | nsubj |
| 7 | swings | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tail | amod |
| 10 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tail | amod |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swings | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swings | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | present | a guinea pig | pig's long fluffy tail | a cartoon | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in cartoon=Location |
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 is wrong with the cartoon?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cartoon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cartoon | det |
| 6 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrong | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with the cartoon; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Real guinea pigs have two short tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pigs | amod |
| 2 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pigs | compound |
| 3 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 tails | nummod |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tails | amod |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Real guinea pigs | two short tails | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
Option 2
Real guinea pigs have no legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pigs | amod |
| 2 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pigs | compound |
| 3 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 legs | det |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Real guinea pigs | no legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
Option 3
Nothing, their tails really are very long and fluffy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tails | punct |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tails | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fluffy | cc |
| 10 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 long | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Real guinea pigs have no tail you can see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pigs | amod |
| 2 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pigs | compound |
| 3 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 tail | det |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tail | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Real guinea pigs | no tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | can | you | no tail not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus |
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