Test 7 · ★ · Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dun…

Why is studying droppings easier than finding shy animals themselves?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: study, find · To what, where: shy animals

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 398 «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 studying	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 studying	aux
3	studying	study	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 easier	csubj
4	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 easier	nsubj
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 finding	mark
7	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 easier	advcl
8	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 finding	obj
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 finding	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 easier	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study	present · progressive							vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	gerund		shy animals				droppings = dropping obl:unmarked	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic

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

Shy animals never poo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poo	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 poo	advmod
4	poo	poo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not poo	present	Shy animals						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Droppings can tell you about the animal by talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 animal	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 talking	mark
9	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	Droppings		you			about the animal	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about animal=Topic
2	talk	gerund	Droppings not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Droppings stay put and hold food, hair and even DNA

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stay	nsubj
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stay	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hold	cc
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 put	conj
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hair	punct
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 DNA	cc
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 DNA	advmod
11	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stay	present	Droppings		tree rules
2	put	infinitive	Droppings not said here		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	hold	infinitive	Droppings not said here	food and hair and DNA	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 4

Shy animals do not really have bodies that can be found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 have	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 found	nsubj:pass
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bodies	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	Shy animals	bodies					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
2	find	can · passive		bodies					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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