Test 8 · ★ · Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growi…

«rats chewed the car wires, are they thick or what» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rats · What happens: chew, be · To what, where: car wires

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	3 chewed	punct
2	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chewed	nsubj
3	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wires	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wires	compound
6	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chewed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thick	punct
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thick	cop
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thick	nsubj
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chewed	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 thick	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 true	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 what	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chewed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chew in a quote	past	rats	the car wires		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	rats = rat		thick property	tree rules
3	is	present			true 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

Rats hate the smell of cars and chew the wires so the cars stop working for good

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smell	det
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hate	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cars	case
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smell	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 chew	cc
8	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hate	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wires	det
10	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chew	obj
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 stop	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cars	det
13	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stop	nsubj
14	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hate	advcl
15	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 stop	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 good	case
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Rats	the smell of cars		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus
2	chew	present	Rats not said here	the wires		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient
3	stop	present	the cars			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	work	gerund	the cars not said here		for good	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary
5	smell		cars			nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Rats only chew when they are bored of cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chew	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 chew	advmod
3	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bored	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bored	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bored	aux:pass
7	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chew	advcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cheese	case
9	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	present	Rats						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bore	present · passive		Rats = rat				of cheese	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Rats gnaw to keep their ever-growing teeth short and to get into places

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gnaw	nsubj
2	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gnaw	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teeth	nmod:poss
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 growing	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 ever	punct
8	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 teeth	amod
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 get	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 places	case
15	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gnaw	present	Rats				tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	Rats not said here	Rats's growing teeth		short property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
3	grow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	Rats not said here		places		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into place=Destination

Option 4

Rats eat electricity for energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 energy	case
5	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Rats	electricity				for energy	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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