Test 8 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

Why do countries make rules about animals coming in?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: countries, animals · What happens: make, come in · To what, where: rules

This is test 8 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 make	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 animals	case
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rules	nmod
8	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 animals	acl
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 coming	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	countries	rules				about animals	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product
2	come in	gerund	animals not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

To stop pets eating any foreign food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 food	det
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		pets					tree rules
2	eat	gerund		any foreign food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2

To count how many pets are on holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 count	mark
2	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 holiday	advcl
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pets	amod
5	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 count	obj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 holiday	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 holiday	case
8	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	to-infinitive		many pets					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme
2	is	present				holiday			tree rules

Option 3

To make pets learn a new language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	advcl
3	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 language	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 language	amod
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	pets					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pet=Product
2	learn	imperative	you not said here	a new language					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To keep diseases like rabies out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 rabies	case
5	rabies	rabies	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl
6	out	out	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		diseases				like rabies; out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=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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