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Test 4 · ★★ · Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents

«a croc carrying babies in its mouth, it's eating them!!» What is really happening?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: croc · What happens: carry, eat, happen · To what, where: babies, mouth

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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 croc carrying babies in its mouth, it's eating them!!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 carrying	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 croc	det
3	croc	croc	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carrying	nsubj
4	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carrying	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carrying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eating	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eating	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 eating	aux
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 carrying	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eating	obj
14	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	12 eating	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 carrying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry in a quote	gerund	a croc	babies		croc's mouth			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Value in mouth=Location
2	eat in a quote	present · progressive	croc	babies = baby					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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 really happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happening	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happening	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happening	advmod
4	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present · progressive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

She is eating them one by one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eating	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eating	aux
3	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eating	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eating	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · progressive	She	them = they					tree rules

Option 2

She is cooling them in her mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cooling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cooling	aux
3	cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cooling	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present · progressive	She	them = they		her mouth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The mother is gently carrying her babies to the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carrying	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carrying	aux
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	5 carrying	advmod
5	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 babies	nmod:poss
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carrying	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present · progressive	the mother	mother's babies		the water		gently property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme to water=Destination

Option 4

She is stealing another crocodile's babies to raise as her own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stealing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stealing	aux
3	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 crocodile	det
5	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 babies	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 crocodile	case
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stealing	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 raise	mark
9	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stealing	advcl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 own	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 own	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 raise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present · progressive	She	another crocodile's babies					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location baby=Theme
2	raise	to-infinitive	She not said here					as crocodile's own	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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