Test 6 · ★ · Kindness to wild animals

«hedgehog in the garden, give it a saucer of milk» What is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hedgehog · What happens: give, be · To what, where: garden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 226 «Kindness to wild animals» 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 hedgehog	punct
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hedgehog	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 saucer	det
10	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 milk	case
12	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saucer	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 best	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 best	cop
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 give	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	infinitive	hedgehog in the garden	garden					tree rules
2	is	present						good 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

Give it nothing, because hedgehogs never drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Give	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drink	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 drink	mark
6	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drink	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 drink	advmod
8	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	nothing	it				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient nothing=Theme
2	not drink	present	hedgehogs						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Give it water; cow's milk upsets its stomach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 upsets	punct
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 milk	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 cow	case
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 upsets	nsubj
8	upsets	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	parataxis
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stomach	nmod:poss
10	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 upsets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	water	it				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient water=Theme
2	upset	present	cow's milk	milk's stomach					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stomach=Experiencer

Option 3

Give it lemonade for energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 energy	case
5	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	lemonade	it			for energy	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Recipient lemonade=Theme for energy=Asset

Option 4

Give it milk, hedgehogs love it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 love	punct
5	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 love	nsubj
6	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	milk	it				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient milk=Theme
2	love	present	hedgehogs	milk					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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