Test 9 · Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, p…
A prairie dog town has many eyes and many holes. Why is that safer?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog town · What happens: have, be · To what, where: many eyes
This is test 9 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
Sentence 1: A prairie dog town has many eyes and many holes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 2 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | compound |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 town | compound |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 holes | cc |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 holes | amod |
| 10 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eyes | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a dog town | many eyes and many holes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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: Why is that safer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 safer | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safer | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 safer | mark |
| 4 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 safer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | safe property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Someone spots danger quickly and everyone has a hole close by
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 spots | nsubj |
| 2 | spots | spot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spots | obj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 spots | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 has | cc |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spots | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hole | amod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 close | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | present | Someone | danger | quickly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent danger=Destination | |||
| 2 | have | present | everyone | a hole | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
Option 2
The holes are full of water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 holes | det |
| 2 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the holes | of water; full property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Big towns have no predators near them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 towns | amod |
| 2 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 predators | det |
| 5 | predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 predators | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Big towns | no predators | near predators = predator | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent predator=Patient |
Option 4
Predators get muddled and cannot count how many holes there are
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 muddled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 muddled | aux:pass |
| 3 | muddled | muddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 count | cc |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 count | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 count | advmod |
| 7 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 muddled | conj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 holes | amod |
| 10 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 are | nsubj |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 count | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | muddle | present · passive | Predators | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not count | can | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | does | present | many holes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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