Test 9 · Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C

«Teeth keep growin? so why don't they get massive» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Teeth · What happens: keep, not get, be · To what, where: growin

This is test 9 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	_	3 keep	punct
2	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	growin	growin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	16 right	advmod
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 get	advmod
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 get	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	advcl
12	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	Teeth	growin		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growin=Theme
2	not get in a quote	present · do-support	Teeth = tooth		massive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	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

Chewing hay all day wears them down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 wears	csubj
2	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chewing	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chewing	obl:unmarked
5	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wears	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 wears	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	gerund		hay			day		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient
2	wear down	present	Chewing	them = they					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

Option 2

They fall out every month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fall	nsubj
2	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 fall	compound:prt
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 month	det
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fall	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	present	They				month		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They only grow in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They				summer		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Guinea pigs file them with stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pigs	compound
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 file	nsubj
3	file	file	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 file	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 stones	case
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 file	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	file	present	Guinea pigs	them = they				with stones	vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with stone=Instrument

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