Test 9 · ★ · Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice

«Rat teeth orange, gross, should I whiten them» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat teeth · What happens: whiten, be · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	3 teeth	punct
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 teeth	compound
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 whiten	nsubj
4	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teeth	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gross	punct
6	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 orange	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 teeth	punct
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 whiten	aux
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 whiten	nsubj
10	whiten	whiten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 whiten	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 whiten	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 whiten	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 whiten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whiten in a quote	should	Rat teeth	them = they					tree rules
2	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 · ← Mova's choice

No, you should pull them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 pull	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pull	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	aux
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pull	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 pull	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	should	you	them = they					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, they are rotting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 rotting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rotting	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rotting	aux
5	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	present · progressive	they						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, orange front teeth are normal and healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 normal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
4	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 normal	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 normal	cop
7	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 healthy	cc
9	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 normal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	orange front teeth					normal property	tree rules
2	be		orange front teeth not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Yes, rats need white teeth to stay healthy and strong

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	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 teeth	amod
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
9	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 strong	cc
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 healthy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	rats	white teeth					tree rules
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	white teeth not said here					healthy property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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