Test 3 · ★ · Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice

«got 2 Syrian hamsters for my bday, put em together so they're not lonely» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hamsters, best answer · What happens: get, put, not be, be · To what, where: 2 Syrian hamsters

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 hamsters	nummod
4	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hamsters	amod
5	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 bday	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bday	nmod:poss
8	bday	bday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
11	em	em	ADV	_	12 together	advmod
12	together	together	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
13	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 lonely	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lonely	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lonely	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 lonely	advmod
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 put	advcl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 lonely	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 lonely	advcl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 What	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 answer	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 answer	amod
23	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 What	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past		2 Syrian hamsters	for my bday	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hamster=Theme for bday=Source
2	put in a quote	infinitive			together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	present	hamsters = hamster		lonely property	tree rules
4	is a	present	the best answer			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

Good idea, they love company

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 idea	amod
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 love	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 love	nsubj
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	they	Good idea					tree rules

Option 2

Only keep them together at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	together	together	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	them = they			night	together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Keep them apart, Syrian hamsters fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fight	punct
5	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hamsters	amod
6	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fight	nsubj
7	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	them = they				apart property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	fight	present	Syrian hamsters						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Put a third one in too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 too	case
6	too	too	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	a third one					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal

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