Test 5 · ★ · Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth

«put new poison bait down, rats ate a tiny bit then left it, they're thick or what» What is really going on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, rats, tiny bit · What happens: put, bait down, eat, leave, be, go on · To what, where: new poison, tiny bit, bit

This is test 5 · ★ 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 put	punct
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poison	amod
4	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	bait	bait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 bait	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ate	punct
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ate	nsubj
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bit	amod
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ate	obj
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 left	advmod
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bit	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thick	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thick	nsubj
18	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thick	cop
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 put	parataxis
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 what	cc
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 thick	conj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 what	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 going	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
25	really	really	ADV	_	26 going	advmod
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 thick	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 going	compound:prt
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	imperative	you not said here	new poison			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent poison=Goal
2	bait down in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	eat in a quote	past	rats	a tiny bit			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
4	leave in a quote	past	a tiny bit not said here	bit	then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	rats = rat			thick property	tree rules
6	go on	present · progressive					vn function-105.2.1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Rats are careful and test a little of new food first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 careful	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 careful	cop
3	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 test	cc
5	test	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 careful	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 test	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 food	case
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 little	nmod
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 test	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Rats					careful property	tree rules
2	test	present	Rats not said here	a little of new food				first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rats only eat at full moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 moon	case
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moon	amod
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl

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

Option 3

Rats did not notice the bait at all, because they cannot smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 notice	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 notice	advmod
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bait	det
6	bait	bait	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 notice	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 notice	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smell	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 smell	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 smell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 smell	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 smell	advmod
14	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 notice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	past · do-support	Rats	the bait		all			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bait=Stimulus
2	not smell	can	Rats = rat						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Rats eat only cheese, never anything else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 cheese	advmod
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 anything	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 anything	advmod
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 eat	parataxis
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 anything	advmod

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

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