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Test 11 · ★ · Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice

A gerbil thumps its feet hard and the others run into their tunnels. What did the thump mean?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: gerbil, others, thump · What happens: thump, run, mean · To what, where: feet, tunnels

This is test 11 · ★ 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: A gerbil thumps its feet hard and the others run into their tunnels.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gerbil	det
2	gerbil	gerbil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thumps	nsubj
3	thumps	thump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thumps	obj
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thumps	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 run	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 run	nsubj
10	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thumps	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 tunnels	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tunnels	nmod:poss
13	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 run	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thumps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thump	present	a gerbil	gerbil's feet				hard property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
2	run	present	the others					into others's tunnels result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tunnel=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 did the thump mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thump	det
4	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	the thump						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

An invitation to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 invitation	det
2	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 invitation	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A song for the owner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 owner	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 owner	det
5	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 song	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A warning of danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 warning	det
2	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 danger	case
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn			danger					nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

A sign it is going to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sign	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	sign	a sign not said here					tree rules
2	sleep	to-infinitive	sign not said here						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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