Test 6 · Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C

«shut up Max, your guinea pig's broken, it keeps jumping up and twisting» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, pig · What happens: shut up, break, keep, jump up, twist, be · To what, where: Max, guinea pig · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shut	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 broken	punct
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pig	nmod:poss
7	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pig	compound
8	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broken	nsubj:pass
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 broken	aux:pass
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shut	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keeps	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keeps	nsubj
13	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shut	advcl
14	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 keeps	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 jumping	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 twisting	cc
17	twisting	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 jumping	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 twisting	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 twisting	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Max		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent max=Patient
2	break in a quote	present · passive		your guinea pig		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	keep in a quote	present	pig			tree rules
4	jump up in a quote	gerund	pig not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	twist in a quote	gerund	pig not said here			tree rules
6	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 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing is broken: it is popcorning because it is happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 broken	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 broken	aux:pass
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 popcorning	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 popcorning	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 popcorning	aux
7	popcorning	popcorn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 broken	advcl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 happy	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happy	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 happy	cop
11	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 broken	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		Nothing		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	popcorn	present · progressive	it			tree rules
3	is	present	it		happy property	tree rules

Option 2

It is trying to fly away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fly away not said to happen	to-infinitive						away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It has fleas biting its feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 fleas	acl
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 biting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	fleas					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flea=Patient
2	bite	gerund	fleas not said here	its feet					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

Option 4

It is having a fit and must go to sleep in a dark room at once

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 having	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fit	det
5	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 having	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 room	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 room	det
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 room	amod
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present · progressive	It	a fit		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient
2	go	must			a dark room	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sleep	to-infinitive				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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