Test 8 · Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C
A child grabs at a guinea pig and it runs into its house. What should the child do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: child · What happens: grab, run, do · To what, where: house
This is test 8 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 child grabs at a guinea pig and it runs into its house.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grabs | nsubj |
| 3 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 pig | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pig | det |
| 6 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pig | compound |
| 7 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grabs | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 runs | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 runs | nsubj |
| 10 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grabs | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 runs | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grabs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | present | a child | at a guinea pig | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | present | child | into child's house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result |
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 should the child do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | the child | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Shout so it gets used to noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 gets | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shout | advcl |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gets | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 noise | mark |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | present | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | use | participle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Sit quietly on the floor and let it come out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 1 Sit | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sit | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sit | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | the floor | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | floor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come out | infinitive | floor not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Pull it out of the house quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pull | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obl |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Pull | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | it | the house | quickly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out house=Initial_Location |
Option 4
Take the house away so it cannot hide and learns to be brave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 hide | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hide | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hide | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hide | advmod |
| 9 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 learns | cc |
| 11 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 brave | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 brave | cop |
| 14 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 learns | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | imperative | you not said here | the house | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | not hide | can | house | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | learn | present | you not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | brave 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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