Test 4 · ★★ · Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monk…

«waved a cracker at a Nara deer then hid it lol, it went mad» Why is teasing a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cracker · What happens: wave, hide, go, tease · To what, where: cracker, Nara deer, bad idea

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 waved	punct
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cracker	det
4	cracker	cracker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 deer	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deer	det
7	Nara	Nara	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 deer	compound
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 hid	advmod
10	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waved	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hid	obj
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 hid	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waved	conj
16	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 went	xcomp
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
18	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 teasing	advmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 teasing	aux
20	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 went	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 idea	det
22	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 idea	amod
23	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 teasing	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 waved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave in a quote	past		a cracker	a Nara deer			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cracker=Patient
2	hide in a quote	past		cracker		then		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	go in a quote	past	cracker				mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tease	present · progressive	cracker not said here	a bad idea				vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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.

The options

Option 1

Deer love being teased and play along with the game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 teased	aux:pass
4	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 love	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 play	cc
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 love	conj
7	along	along	ADV	_	6 play	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 game	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 game	det
10	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	love	present	Deer		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tease not said to happen	gerund · passive	Deer not said here		vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»
3	play along	infinitive	Deer not said here	with the game; along property	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with game=Theme

Option 2

The deer cannot see crackers that are held in a hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 held	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 held	aux:pass
9	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 crackers	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hand	det
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	the deer	crackers					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cracker=Stimulus
2	hold	present · passive		crackers		a hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in hand=Location

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

The deer may butt or bite people who tease them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 butt	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 butt	aux
4	butt	butt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 bite	cc
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 butt	conj
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bite	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tease	nsubj
9	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 people	acl:relcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tease	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	butt	may	the deer		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	bite	infinitive	the deer not said here	people	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	tease	present	people	people	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

The deer will forget about it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forget	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	future	the deer					about it	tree rules

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