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Test 8 · ★ · Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice

A girl's pet rat comes running when she calls «Pip!». What does this show?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: pet rat, rat, this · What happens: come, run, call, show · To what, where: Pip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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 girl's pet rat comes running when she calls «Pip!».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 girl	case
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rat	compound
5	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 comes	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 calls	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 calls	nsubj
10	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 running	acl:relcl
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 Pip	punct
12	Pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 calls	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Pip	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 Pip	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	a girl's pet rat						tree rules
2	run	gerund	a girl's pet rat not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	present	rat	Pip					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pip=Recipient

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 this show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	this						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

It was a lucky accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 accident	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accident	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 accident	det
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 accident	amod
5	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a lucky accident					tree rules

Option 2

Rats only come for cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 cheese	case
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Rats					for cheese	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Rats are clever and can learn their names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clever	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 learn	cc
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 clever	conj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 names	nmod:poss
8	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Rats					clever property	tree rules
2	learn	can	Rats not said here	Rats's names					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
3	name		Rats = rat						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Rats can understand every word she says, like a person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 understand	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 understand	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 person	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 person	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 understand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	can	Rats	every word				like a person	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	she	every word not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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