Test 7 · ★ · Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice

«my mum says hamsters are easy, just a cage and food, done» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, hamsters · What happens: say, be, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 easy	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	cop
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cage	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 cage	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cage	det
11	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 easy	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 food	cc
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cage	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 done	punct
15	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 easy	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 done	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 easy	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my mum		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	hamsters	a cage and food obl; easy property	tree rules
3	do in a quote	participle	hamsters not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	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

They clean and feed themselves

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 clean	nsubj
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 feed	cc
4	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 clean	conj
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	They						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	feed	present	They not said here	themselves = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient

Option 2

Yes, they need nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 need	obj
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	they	nothing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme

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

They need clean bedding, water, food and things to do every day

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 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bedding	amod
4	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bedding	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 food	punct
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bedding	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 things	cc
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 food	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	advcl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	They	clean bedding and water and food and things					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bedding=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive	They not said here				day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They only need feeding once a month, because they store food in their cheeks

The tree, 14 words

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 need	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 need	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 store	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 store	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 store	nsubj
11	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	parataxis
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 store	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cheeks	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cheeks	nmod:poss
15	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 store	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	They	feeding				once property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feeding=Theme
2	store	present	they	food		their cheeks			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in cheek=Location

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