Test 9 · ★ · Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth

«why's the mouse only come in when it's freezing out??»

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse · What happens: come in, freeze out

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	7 come	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 come	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 freezing	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 freezing	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 freezing	aux
12	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 come	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 freezing	compound:prt
14	??	??	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in in a quote	present	the mouse						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	freeze out in a quote	present · progressive	mouse						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

It wants warmth and food for the winter

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	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 food	cc
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warmth	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 winter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 winter	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It	warmth and food			winter		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot warmth=Theme

Option 2

Snow makes mice angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Snow	mice				angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouse=Product

Option 3

Mice only like the dark of winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dark	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 dark	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dark	det
5	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It is coming in to hibernate in the fridge

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	3 coming	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 coming	aux
3	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 coming	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hibernate	mark
6	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 coming	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 fridge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fridge	det
9	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hibernate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	present · progressive	It						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hibernate	to-infinitive				the fridge			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in fridge=Location

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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