Test 10 · Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, hudd…
A naked mole rat baby is moved to a new colony. What happens to its chirps?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colony · What happens: move, happen, chirp · To what, where: naked rat baby, new colony
This is test 10 of lesson 241 «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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
Sentence 1: A naked mole rat baby is moved to a new colony.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 2 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 baby | amod |
| 3 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rat | compound |
| 4 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baby | compound |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 moved | aux:pass |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 colony | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 colony | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 colony | amod |
| 11 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · passive | a naked rat baby | a new colony | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to colony=Trajectory |
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.
Sentence 2: What happens to its chirps?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 chirps | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chirps | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chirps | chirp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happens | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | to colony's chirps | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | chirp | colony | nom chirp «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It keeps its old dialect and is attacked
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 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dialect | nmod:poss |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dialect | amod |
| 5 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 attacked | cc |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 attacked | aux:pass |
| 8 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 keeps | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | It | its old dialect | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dialect=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attack | present · passive | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V» |
Option 2
It teaches its dialect to the queen
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 teaches | nsubj |
| 2 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dialect | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teaches | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teaches | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | It | its dialect | the queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dialect=Topic to queen=Recipient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It learns the new colony's dialect
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 learns | nsubj |
| 2 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colony | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colony | amod |
| 5 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dialect | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 colony | case |
| 7 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 learns | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | It | the new colony's dialect | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dialect=Topic |
Option 4
It stops chirping for the rest of its life
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 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | chirping | chirp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stops | xcomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 rest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rest | det |
| 6 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chirping | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rest | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | It | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | chirp | gerund | for the rest of rest's life | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for rest=Recipient |
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