Test 9 · ★★ · Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them

«weird, hedgehog chewing my shoe and frothing all over its back, has it got rabies» What is likely?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: weird hedgehog, got rabies · What happens: chew, froth, have, get, be · To what, where: shoe, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 214 «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» 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 hedgehog	punct
2	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hedgehog	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 weird	punct
4	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
5	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hedgehog	acl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shoe	nmod:poss
7	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chewing	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 frothing	cc
9	frothing	froth	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 chewing	conj
10	all	all	ADV	_	13 back	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frothing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hedgehog	punct
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 has	obj
17	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 rabies	amod
18	rabies	rabies	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 likely	nsubj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 rabies	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 likely	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 likely	cop
22	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 has	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chew in a quote	gerund	weird hedgehog not said here	my shoe		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
2	froth in a quote	gerund	weird hedgehog not said here	hedgehog's back		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location back=Theme
3	have in a quote	present	weird hedgehog	back		tree rules
4	get in a quote	participle				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	got rabies		likely 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

It has rabies and must be taken away at once

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rabies	rabies	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 taken	cc
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 has	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	rabies					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabies=Patient
2	take away	must · passive						away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»

Option 2

It is trying to eat the shoe

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	3 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shoe	det
7	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		the shoe					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is self-anointing, which hedgehogs often do

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 anointing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 anointing	aux
3	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anointing	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 self	punct
5	anointing	anoint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 do	obj
8	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 anointing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	anoint	present · progressive	It						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	hedgehogs					often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It is making a nest with spit and bits of shoe

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	3 making	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 making	aux
3	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nest	det
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 making	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 spit	case
7	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 making	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bits	cc
9	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spit	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 shoe	case
11	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bits	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	It	a nest				with spit and bits of shoe	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material nest=Product

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