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Test 8 · ★★ · The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat,…

The book's field-mice go carol-singing in December. Which part could be true of real wood mice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: field mice, carol, part · What happens: go, sing, be · To what, where: carol

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 405 «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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: The book's field-mice go carol-singing in December.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mice	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 book	case
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mice	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 field	punct
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	carol	carol	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 carol	punct
10	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 carol	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 December	case
12	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 singing	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the book's field mice	carol					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund	carol not said here				december		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Which part could be true of real wood mice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 true	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 true	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 mice	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mice	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mice	compound
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 true	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	which part					of real wood mice; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

They are active in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 active	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 active	cop
3	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 active	obl

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

Option 2

They hibernate till spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hibernate	nsubj
2	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	ADP	_	4 spring	case
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hibernate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate	present	They				spring		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They sing carols

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sing	nsubj
2	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	carols	carol	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	They	carols					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme

Option 4

They wear woollen scarves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wear	nsubj
2	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scarves	amod
4	scarves	scarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	They	woollen scarves					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scarf=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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