Test 5 · ★ · Foxes and squirrels

«cute fox in the garden, gonna feed it from my hand» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: feed, be · To what, where: garden, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 215 «Foxes and squirrels» 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 fox	punct
2	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fox	amod
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fox	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feed	punct
8	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 feed	dep
9	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fox	appos
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feed	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feed	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 feed	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feed	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fox	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed in a quote	infinitive		garden		my hand			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 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is a wild animal and should not be hand fed or petted

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 animal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 animal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 animal	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hand	cc
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hand	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hand	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 hand	cop
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	conj
13	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hand	acl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 petted	cc
15	petted	pet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 fed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a wild animal and hand	tree rules
2	not is a	should		hand	tree rules
3	feed	participle		hand not said here	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	pet	participle			vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, foxes love being stroked and fed, just like a pet dog does

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 love	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stroked	aux:pass
6	stroked	stroke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 love	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fed	cc
8	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stroked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 does	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	15 does	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 dog	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dog	det
13	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dog	compound
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 does	nsubj
15	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 love	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	love	present	foxes	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stroke not said to happen	gerund · passive	foxes not said here	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»
3	feed	participle	foxes not said here	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	do	present	a pet dog	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, foxes only eat grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 foxes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	foxes	grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 4

Yes, they only eat from hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 hands	case
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	they			hands			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from hand=Source

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