Test 6 · ★ · Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat

«pigs are filthy, look at them in that mud» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: pigs · What happens: be, look · To what, where: mud · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 287 «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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	_	4 filthy	punct
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 filthy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 filthy	cop
4	filthy	filthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 filthy	parataxis
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 mud	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 mud	det
11	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 filthy	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 filthy	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 filthy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	pigs		filthy property	tree rules
2	look in a quote	infinitive		that mud	at pigs = pig	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
3	is	present			right 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

Pigs are the dirtiest of all animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dirtiest	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dirtiest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dirtiest	det
4	dirtiest	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 animals	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 animals	det
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dirtiest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pigs					of all animals; dirty property	tree rules

Option 2

Mud is their food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 food	cop
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mud	their food					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They roll in mud to cool down, and are clean when they have space

The tree, 14 words

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 roll	nsubj
2	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 mud	case
4	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roll	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cool	mark
6	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 roll	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 cool	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 clean	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 clean	cc
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 clean	cop
11	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roll	parataxis
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 have	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 clean	advcl
15	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	present	They		mud		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory
2	cool down	to-infinitive	They not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present				clean property	tree rules
4	have	present	they	space			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient

Option 4

Yes, pigs love dirt more than food, and roll in it to smell worse

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 love	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 love	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 more	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 roll	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 roll	cc
11	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 love	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 roll	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 smell	mark
15	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 roll	advcl
16	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 smell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	present	pigs	dirt			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dirt=Stimulus
2	roll	infinitive			food		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory
3	smell	to-infinitive				bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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