Test 7 · ★ · Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growi…

«why do mice have SO many babies, mad» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mice, many babies · What happens: have, be · To what, where: many babies, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 316 «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» 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	_	5 have	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 have	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	SO	so	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 babies	amod
8	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mad	punct
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 babies	appos
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 mad	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 answer	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 answer	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 answer	amod
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 babies	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present · do-support	mice	many babies and the best answer					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
2	be speech: assert	present	many babies and the best answer	the best answer					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

Mice live for a hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Mice				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Mice cannot count, so they never know how many babies they have already had

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 count	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 count	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 count	advmod
4	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 know	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 count	parataxis
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 babies	amod
12	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 know	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 had	aux
15	already	already	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 babies	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not count	can	Mice		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	not know	present	Mice = mouse	many babies	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus
3	have	present · perfect	Mice = mouse	many babies not said here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many animals eat mice, so having lots of babies helps some survive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 helps	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 helps	advmod
7	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 helps	csubj
8	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 having	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 babies	case
10	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lots	nmod
11	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 helps	obj
13	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	present	Many animals	mice	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient
2	have	gerund		lots of babies	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
3	help	present	having	some	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent some=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	survive	infinitive	some not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Babies stay small for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stay	nsubj
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stay	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Babies					small property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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