Test 7 · Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first

«just one guinea pig, it'll have me» What is the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: one guinea pig, best reply · What happens: have, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 325 «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» 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	_	9 have	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 one	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pig	nummod
4	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pig	compound
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pig	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 What	parataxis
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 What	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reply	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 reply	amod
16	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 What	nsubj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	future	one guinea pig	me					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	is a	present	the best reply						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

One is best, because two guinea pigs in a cage always fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fight	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 fight	mark
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pigs	nummod
7	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pigs	compound
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fight	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cage	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cage	det
11	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pigs	nmod
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 fight	advmod
13	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	One					good property	tree rules
2	fight	present	two guinea pigs in a cage					always property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

One is fine, they hate company

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hate	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hate	nsubj
6	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	One					fine property	tree rules
2	hate	present	they	company					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus

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

Guinea pigs need one of their own kind to play and talk with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pigs	compound
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 kind	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 kind	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kind	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kind	amod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 play	mark
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 kind	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 talk	cc
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 play	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	12 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	need	present	Guinea pigs	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	play	to-infinitive	Guinea pigs not said here	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	talk	infinitive	Guinea pigs not said here	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Guinea pigs only need a mirror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pigs	compound
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mirror	det
6	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Guinea pigs	a mirror					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mirror=Theme

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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