Test 1 · ★ · Raccoons, opossums and skunks

«raccoons got into the green bin AGAIN, rubbish everywhere, how do they even open it»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: raccoons · What happens: get, open · To what, where: rubbish, green bin

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 224 «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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	_	3 got	punct
2	raccoons	raccoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 bin	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bin	det
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bin	amod
7	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	AGAIN	again	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rubbish	punct
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 got	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 open	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 open	advmod
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 open	aux
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 open	nsubj
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 open	advmod
17	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 open	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	raccoons	rubbish		the green bin	again	everywhere property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bin=Destination
2	open in a quote	present · do-support	raccoons = raccoon	rubbish					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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 · ← Mova's choice

They wait for the wind to open it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wait	nsubj
2	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 wind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 open	mark
7	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wait	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 open	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	They					for the wind	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	to-infinitive	They not said here	wind					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their clever five-fingered paws can lift the lid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 paws	nmod:poss
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paws	amod
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 fingered	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
5	fingered	finger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 paws	amod
6	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lift	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lift	aux
8	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lid	det
10	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finger	participle							tree rules
2	lift	can	Their clever fingered paws	the lid					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme

Option 3

They push it over and the lid melts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 push	nsubj
2	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 push	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	2 push	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 melts	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lid	det
7	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 melts	nsubj
8	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 push	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push over	present	They	it					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	melt	present	the lid						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

They ring the doorbell to scare people off first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ring	nsubj
2	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doorbell	det
4	doorbell	doorbell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ring	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 scare	mark
6	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ring	advcl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scare	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 scare	compound:prt
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 scare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	They	the doorbell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doorbell=Theme
2	scare off	to-infinitive	They not said here	people				first property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

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