Test 1 · Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fl…

«ew, mice, just leave the cereal open, they'll go away» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mice · What happens: leave, go away, be · To what, where: cereal, best advice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 397 «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» 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	_	4 mice	punct
2	ew	ew	INTJ	Number=Sing	4 mice	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ew	punct
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mice	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 leave	advmod
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cereal	det
9	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leave	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leave	parataxis
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 advice	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 advice	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 advice	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 advice	amod
21	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	infinitive	mice	the cereal	open property	tree rules
2	go away in a quote	future	mice = mouse		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		the best advice		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Keep food in tight boxes, so mice find nothing to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 boxes	case
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boxes	amod
5	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 find	advmod
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 find	nsubj
9	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 find	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	food	tight boxes	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in box=Location
2	find	present	mice	nothing		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	eat	to-infinitive	mice not said here	nothing not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Mice only eat cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Mice	cheese					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient

Option 3

Mice hate cereal, so it is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hate	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fine	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 fine	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fine	expl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Mice	cereal					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cereal=Stimulus
2	is	present	Mice not said here					fine property	tree rules

Option 4

Leave more food out in the garden so they stay outside the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	1 Leave	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 stay	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stay	nsubj
10	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl
11	outside	outside	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	imperative	you not said here	more food		the garden			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	stay	present	they			the house			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside house=Location

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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