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Test 7 · Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C

A guinea pig stares with open eyes and does not move for a few minutes. What may be happening?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: guinea pig · What happens: stare, not move, happen

This is test 7 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 stares with open eyes and does not move for a few minutes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pig	det
2	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pig	compound
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stares	nsubj
4	stares	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stares	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 move	cc
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 move	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 move	advmod
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stares	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 minutes	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 minutes	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 minutes	amod
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 move	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stares	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	present	a guinea pig					with open eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	not move	present · do-support	a guinea pig not said here				minute		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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 may be happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happening	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happening	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happening	aux
4	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	may · progressive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It must be dead

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	4 dead	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	It					dead property	tree rules

Option 2

It is counting the child

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 counting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 counting	aux
3	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present · progressive	It	the child					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Option 3

It is pretending to be a rock forever

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 pretending	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pretending	aux
3	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 rock	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 rock	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretending	xcomp
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 rock	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present · progressive	It						tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		a rock				forever property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It may be napping with its eyes open

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	4 napping	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 napping	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 napping	aux
4	napping	nap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 napping	obl
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 napping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nap	may · progressive	It					with its eyes; open property	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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