Test 10 · ★ · Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice
In a cartoon a hamster has a long fluffy tail like a squirrel. What does a real hamster have?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: hamster, real hamster · What happens: have · To what, where: long fluffy tail, cartoon
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 202 «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» 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 hamster has a long fluffy tail like a squirrel.
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 | 6 has | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hamster | det |
| 5 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tail | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tail | amod |
| 9 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tail | amod |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 squirrel | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 squirrel | det |
| 13 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tail | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a hamster | a long fluffy tail | a cartoon | like a squirrel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
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 does a real hamster have?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 have | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hamster | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hamster | amod |
| 5 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | a real hamster | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1
A fluffy tail like a fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tail | det |
| 2 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tail | amod |
| 3 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 fox | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tail | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A very short tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tail | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 short | advmod |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tail | amod |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A long bare tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tail | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tail | amod |
| 3 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tail | amod |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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