Test 10 · ★ · Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth
In Tom and Jerry a mouse runs off with a big wedge of holey cheese. What do real mice like most?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse, real mice · What happens: run off, be · To what, where: Tom
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 222 «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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: In Tom and Jerry a mouse runs off with a big wedge of holey cheese.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Tom | case |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 runs | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Jerry | cc |
| 4 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tom | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mouse | det |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 runs | nsubj |
| 7 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 runs | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wedge | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wedge | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wedge | amod |
| 12 | wedge | wedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 runs | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cheese | case |
| 14 | holey | holey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cheese | amod |
| 15 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wedge | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 runs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | present | a mouse | Tom and Jerry | with a big wedge of holey cheese | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tom=Trajectory |
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 do real mice like most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mice | amod |
| 4 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 most | case |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 mice | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | real mice like most | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only yellow cheese with holes in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 yellow | advmod |
| 2 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cheese | amod |
| 3 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 holes | case |
| 5 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cheese | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 holes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only raw meat and fish from bins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 meat | advmod |
| 2 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 meat | amod |
| 3 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fish | cc |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meat | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bins | case |
| 7 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 meat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Seeds, grain and sweet foods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grain | punct |
| 3 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeds | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 foods | cc |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 foods | amod |
| 6 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Seeds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nothing; they never eat indoors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 5 eat | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | present | they | indoors property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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