Test 7 · ★ · Foxes and squirrels

«squirrel buried the nut, dug it up, and buried it again somewhere else, it's daft» Why might it do this?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: squirrel · What happens: bury, dig up, be, do · To what, where: nut, this

This is test 7 · ★ 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 buried	punct
2	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	nsubj
3	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nut	det
5	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dug	punct
7	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buried	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dug	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 dug	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 buried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 buried	cc
12	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dug	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 buried	obj
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 buried	advmod
15	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 buried	advmod
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 somewhere	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 daft	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 daft	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 daft	cop
20	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buried	obl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 daft	punct
22	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 do	advmod
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 buried	advcl
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 do	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 buried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bury in a quote	past	squirrel	the nut			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
2	dig up in a quote	past	squirrel not said here	nut			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	bury in a quote	past	squirrel not said here	nut	again	somewhere property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	squirrel			daft property	tree rules
5	do	might	squirrel	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality

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 wants the nut to grow into a tree first, so it moves it to the sun

The tree, 17 words

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nut	det
4	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grow	mark
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obl
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 grow	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 moves	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 moves	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 moves	nsubj
14	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 moves	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 sun	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	It	the nut			tree rules
2	grow not said to happen	to-infinitive	the nut not said here			into a tree result; first property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result
3	move	present	nut	tree	the sun		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sun=Trajectory

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

Another squirrel may be watching, so it fools the thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 squirrel	det
2	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watching	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 watching	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 watching	aux
5	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fools	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 fools	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fools	nsubj
9	fools	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 watching	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thief	det
11	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fools	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	may · progressive	another squirrel						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	fool	present	squirrel	the thief					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Patient

Option 3

Squirrels are confused by grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 confused	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 confused	aux:pass
3	confused	confuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 grass	case
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 confused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confuse	present · passive	grass	Squirrels					vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4

It forgot which way is up

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 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 up	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 up	cop
6	up	up	ADV	_	2 forgot	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	It						tree rules
2	is	present	which way					up property	tree rules

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