Test 4 · ★ · Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth

«blocked the hole with my thumb-sized bit of foam, rat can't get in now, sorted» What is likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rat · What happens: block, size, not get in, sort, be · To what, where: hole

This is test 4 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 blocked	punct
2	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hole	det
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blocked	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 bit	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bit	nmod:poss
7	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sized	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 thumb	punct
9	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bit	amod
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 foam	case
12	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
14	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	nsubj
15	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 get	advmod
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 blocked	conj
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 get	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sorted	punct
21	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blocked	conj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 sorted	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 likely	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 likely	cop
25	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sorted	ccomp
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 blocked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	block in a quote	past		the hole		with my sized bit of foam	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Destination with bit=Theme
2	size in a quote	participle					tree rules
3	not get in in a quote	can	rat		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	sort in a quote	past					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present				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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A rat can still gnaw through it or find a coin-sized gap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rat	det
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gnaw	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gnaw	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 gnaw	advmod
5	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gnaw	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 find	cc
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gnaw	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 gap	det
11	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sized	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 coin	punct
13	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gap	amod
14	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	gnaw	can	a rat		it	still	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	infinitive	a rat not said here	a sized gap			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Topic
3	size	participle					tree rules

Option 2

Rats never get through anything soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 get	advmod
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 get	obl
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 anything	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	Rats			anything			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through anything=Destination

Option 3

Foam is poisonous so rats run away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 run	advmod
5	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Foam					poisonous property	tree rules
2	run away	present	rats					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Rats cannot climb, so a hole off the ground is always safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climb	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 climb	advmod
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 safe	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	14 safe	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hole	det
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 safe	nsubj
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hole	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 safe	cop
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 safe	advmod
14	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 climb	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not climb	can	Rats						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	a hole off the ground					always, safe property	tree rules

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