Test 11 · Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps,…

«found a boar hole in the woods, gonna go see if the piglets are about» What is the problem?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: piglets · What happens: find, go, see, be · To what, where: boar hole, woods, problem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 393 «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
4	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hole	compound
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hole	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
10	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	11 go	dep
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	conj
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	xcomp
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 about	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 piglets	det
15	piglets	piglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 about	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 about	cop
17	about	about	ADV	_	12 see	advcl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 problem	obj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 problem	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 problem	det
22	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a boar hole	the woods		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hole=Attribute clause=Theme
2	go in a quote	infinitive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the piglets			about property	tree rules
5	is a	present		the problem			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

Nothing, boars love company and will come and say hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 love	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	boars	boar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 love	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
11	hello	hello	INTJ	_	10 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	present	boars	company	Nothing vocative	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus
2	come	future	boars not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	boars not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A mother with piglets may charge to protect them, so go back the way you came

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 charge	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 piglets	case
4	piglets	piglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mother	nmod
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 charge	aux
6	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 protect	mark
8	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 charge	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 protect	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 charge	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl:unmarked
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 way	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	charge	may	a mother with piglets		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	protect	to-infinitive	a mother with piglets not said here	piglets = piglet	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
3	go back	infinitive	a mother with piglets not said here	the way	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	come	past	you	the way not said here	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme

Option 3

Piglets bite much harder than adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Piglets	piglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	nsubj
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 harder	advmod
4	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 bite	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 harder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Piglets					hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Wild boars only live in zoos, so it must be some other animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boars	amod
2	boars	boar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 live	advmod
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 zoos	case
6	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 animal	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	14 animal	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 animal	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 animal	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 animal	cop
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 animal	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 animal	amod
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Wild boars			zoos			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location
2	is a	must	it	some other animal					tree rules

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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