Test 10 · ★★ · Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monk…
How can people and big cats share a city safely?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: share · To what, where: city
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 368 «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 share | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 share | aux |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 share | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cats | cc |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cats | amod |
| 6 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 people | conj |
| 7 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 share | obj |
| 10 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 7 share | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 share | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | can | people and big cats | a city | safely 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 · ✓ the right answer
Keep rubbish clean, lights on and children indoors after dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lights | punct |
| 5 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 children | cc |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lights | nmod |
| 9 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 dark | case |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | rubbish | after dark | lights on children obl; clean, indoors property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme |
Option 2
Let children play outside all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 3 play | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | infinitive | children not said here | night | outside property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Leave food out every night so the cats are always full
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Leave | compound:prt |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 full | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cats | det |
| 8 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 full | advmod |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Leave | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave out | imperative | you not said here | food | night | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | the cats | always, full property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Keep stray dogs tied up in the streets as bait for the cats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | stray | stray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dogs | amod |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 4 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dogs | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 tied | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 streets | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 streets | det |
| 8 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 bait | case |
| 10 | bait | bait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 cats | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cats | det |
| 13 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | stray dogs | the streets | as bait; for the cats | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme in street=Location | ||
| 2 | tie up | participle | stray dogs not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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