Test 9 · ★★ · Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents

In a game, the kangaroo baby is born big and hops out to eat grass at once. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: bear, hop out, eat, be · To what, where: kangaroo baby, game, grass

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: In a game, the kangaroo baby is born big and hops out to eat grass at once.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 born	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baby	det
6	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 baby	compound
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 born	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 born	aux:pass
9	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 born	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hops	cc
12	hops	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 born	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 hops	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hops	xcomp
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eat	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 eat	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 born	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive	the kangaroo baby	a game	big property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	hop out	present				tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	grass			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is born the size of a jellybean and grows in the pouch for months

The tree, 15 words

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 born	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 size	det
5	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 jellybean	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 jellybean	det
8	jellybean	jellybean	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 size	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grows	cc
10	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 born	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pouch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pouch	det
13	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grows	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 months	case
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		It					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary size=Patient
2	grow	present				the pouch	month		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location

Option 2

Nothing, that is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 right	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

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

Option 3

Kangaroo babies are born in trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 babies	compound
2	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 trees	case
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		Kangaroo babies		trees			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Kangaroos lay eggs in the pouch and the eggs hatch into baby kangaroos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pouch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pouch	det
6	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hatch	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eggs	det
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hatch	nsubj
10	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 kangaroos	case
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kangaroos	compound
13	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	Kangaroos	eggs		the pouch			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in pouch=Destination
2	hatch	present	the eggs					into baby kangaroos	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient into kangaroo=Product

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