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Test 11 · ★★ · Pigs: mud, snouts and brains

A pig on a farm is pushing its nose into the soil and turning it over. What is it doing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: pig · What happens: push, turn over, do · To what, where: nose, soil

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» 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 pig on a farm is pushing its nose into the soil and turning it over.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pig	det
2	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushing	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 farm	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 farm	det
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pig	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pushing	aux
7	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nose	nmod:poss
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushing	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 soil	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soil	det
12	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushing	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turning	cc
14	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pushing	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turning	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	14 turning	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pushing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present · progressive	a pig on a farm	pig's nose		the soil			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme into soil=Destination
2	turn over	gerund	a pig on a farm not said here	nose					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 is it doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	pig						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Looking for its lost tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 tail	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tail	amod
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						for its lost tail	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tail=Theme
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rooting for roots and grubs to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rooting	root	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 roots	case
3	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rooting	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grubs	cc
5	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roots	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Rooting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	root	gerund						for roots and grubs	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for root=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Trying to escape under the fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 escape	mark
3	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 fence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fence	det
6	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 escape	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive				the fence			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Burying its piglets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burying	bury	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 piglets	nmod:poss
3	piglets	piglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Burying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	gerund		its piglets					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piglet=Theme

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