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Test 9 · ★★ · The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel,…

A friend wants to train a hedgehog to swim until it turns into an armadillo. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, hedgehog · What happens: want, train, swim, turn, be · To what, where: hedgehog

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 404 «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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

Sentence 1: A friend wants to train a hedgehog to swim until it turns into an armadillo.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 train	mark
5	train	train	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hedgehog	det
7	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 train	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 swim	mark
9	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 train	xcomp
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 turns	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turns	nsubj
12	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 swim	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 armadillo	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 armadillo	det
15	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a friend						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	train not said to happen	to-infinitive	a friend not said here	a hedgehog					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Theme clause=Attribute
3	swim	to-infinitive	a hedgehog not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	present	friend					into a armadillo result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into armadillo=Result

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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Hedgehogs can do it, but it takes about a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 takes	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 takes	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 takes	nsubj
8	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 do	advcl
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 year	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 takes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	Hedgehogs	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	take	present	it				year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It only works if a tortoise helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 helps	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tortoise	det
6	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helps	nsubj
7	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 works	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help a condition, not said to happen	present	a tortoise						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Practising cannot change one animal into another kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practising	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 change	csubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 animal	nummod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 kind	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	gerund							tree rules
2	not change	can	Practising	one animal				into another kind result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent animal=Patient into kind=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Armadillos are just hedgehogs that learned to swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Armadillos	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hedgehogs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hedgehogs	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 hedgehogs	advmod
4	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 learned	nsubj
6	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hedgehogs	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 swim	mark
8	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 learned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Armadillos	hedgehogs					tree rules
2	learn	past	hedgehogs						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	swim	to-infinitive	hedgehogs not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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