Test 4 · Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, p…

«groundhog saw his shadow so 6 more weeks winter, proper science» What is true?

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

This is test 4 of lesson 317 «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» 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 saw	punct
2	groundhog	groundhog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 true	csubj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shadow	nmod:poss
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 winter	advmod
7	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 weeks	nummod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 weeks	amod
9	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 winter	compound
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 science	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 science	amod
13	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 winter	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 true	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	groundhog	groundhog's shadow	winter		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus
2	is	present				true property	tree rules
3	shadow in a quote		groundhog				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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

It is science, but only when it is sunny

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	3 science	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 science	cop
3	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sunny	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 sunny	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 sunny	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 sunny	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sunny	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sunny	cop
10	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 science	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	science					tree rules
2	is	present	science					sunny property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is a fun custom; no animal can forecast the weather weeks ahead

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	5 custom	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 custom	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 custom	det
4	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 custom	amod
5	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 forecast	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 animal	det
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forecast	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 forecast	aux
10	forecast	forecast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 custom	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 weather	det
12	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 weeks	compound
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 forecast	obj
14	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	10 forecast	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fun custom					tree rules
2	forecast	can	no animal				week	ahead property	tree rules

Option 3

True, but only in America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 America	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 America	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 America	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 America	case
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 True	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

True, groundhogs feel the coming weather in their fur and are never wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 groundhogs	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	groundhogs	groundhog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weather	det
6	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 weather	amod
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 fur	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fur	nmod:poss
10	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wrong	cc
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wrong	cop
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 wrong	advmod
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	present	True groundhogs	the coming weather	groundhogs's fur		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent weather=Theme in fur=Location
2	come	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	present	True groundhogs not said here			wrong property	tree rules

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