Test 11 · Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a…

«shut up, it's my stray, i'll pick up the kittens and take 'em home» What is wiser?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, it, i · What happens: shut up, be, pick up, take · To what, where: stray, kittens, 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 371 «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stray	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stray	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stray	cop
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 stray	nmod:poss
8	stray	stray	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shut	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pick	punct
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 pick	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pick	aux
12	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shut	parataxis
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 pick	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kittens	det
15	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pick	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 take	cc
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pick	conj
18	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	home	home	ADV	_	17 take	advmod
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 wiser	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wiser	cop
23	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 take	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	it	my stray		tree rules
3	pick up in a quote	future	i	the kittens		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Topic
4	take in a quote	infinitive	i not said here	'em = they	home property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Attribute
5	is	present			wise 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

Shake the box to wake them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 box	det
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shake	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wake	mark
5	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Shake	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wake	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 wake	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	the box					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent box=Patient
2	wake up	to-infinitive	you not said here	them = they					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Leave them, the mother may be nearby, and tell a grown-up

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leave	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 nearby	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 nearby	cop
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	5 mother	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 up	det
13	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 up	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 up	punct
15	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	them = they		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme mother=Attribute
2	is	may	you not said here		nearby property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a grown up		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient

Option 3

Take them, mothers never come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
4	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	not come back	present	mothers						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Feed them milk from your hand right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Feed	iobj
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feed	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feed	obl
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	1 Feed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here	milk	them = they	your hand		away property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient milk=Theme

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