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Test 2 · ★ · Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth

In a famous cartoon a frightened elephant leaps onto a stool when a mouse runs past. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frightened elephant, mouse · What happens: leap, run past, be · To what, where: famous cartoon

This is test 2 · ★ 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 a famous cartoon a frightened elephant leaps onto a stool when a mouse runs past.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cartoon	det
3	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cartoon	amod
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaps	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 elephant	det
6	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 elephant	amod
7	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaps	nsubj
8	leaps	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	11 stool	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stool	det
11	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaps	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 runs	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 runs	nsubj
15	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 leaps	advcl
16	past	past	ADV	_	15 runs	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 leaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap	present	a frightened elephant			a famous cartoon		onto a stool	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Trajectory
2	run past	present	a mouse					past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Real elephants fear mice because mice eat their food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 elephants	amod
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fear	nsubj
3	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fear	obj
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 eat	mark
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fear	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 food	nmod:poss
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	present	Real elephants	mice					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus
2	eat	present	mice	mice's food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2

Real elephants always faint when they see a mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 elephants	amod
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 faint	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 faint	advmod
4	faint	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 see	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 faint	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mouse	det
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	present	Real elephants					always property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	present	elephants = elephant	a mouse					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There is no good evidence real elephants fear mice especially

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 evidence	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	amod
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 elephants	amod
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fear	nsubj
8	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 evidence	acl
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fear	obj
10	especially	especially	ADV	_	8 fear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no good evidence			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fear	present	real elephants	mice				especially property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus

Option 4

Real mice hunt elephants in the wild, so elephants have learned to fear them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mice	amod
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wild	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wild	det
7	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 learned	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 learned	advmod
10	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 learned	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 learned	aux
12	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 hunt	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fear	mark
14	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 learned	xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Real mice	elephants		the wild			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme in wild=Location
2	learn	present · perfect	elephants						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fear	to-infinitive	elephants not said here	elephants = elephant					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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