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Test 9 · The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth

You feel a deep shaking through the floor but hear almost nothing. What could it be?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, shaking · What happens: feel, hear, be · To what, where: deep shaking, floor, nothing

This is test 9 of lesson 83 «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» 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: You feel a deep shaking through the floor but hear almost nothing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shaking	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shaking	amod
5	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feel	obj
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feel	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 hear	cc
10	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feel	conj
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 nothing	advmod
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 hear	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	You	a deep shaking		the floor			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shaking=Theme through floor=Location
2	hear	present	You not said here	nothing					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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 could it be?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 be	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 be	nsubj
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	can	could	shaking						vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1

The elephants snoring in their sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elephants	det
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	snoring	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 elephants	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sleep	nmod:poss
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snoring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	gerund	the elephants not said here					in elephants's sleep	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sleep=Theme
2	sleep		elephants = elephant						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A tiger roaring next door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tiger	acl
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roaring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	gerund	a tiger not said here	next door					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

Option 3

An earthquake caused by elephant footsteps on the hard ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 earthquake	det
2	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 earthquake	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 footsteps	case
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 footsteps	compound
6	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caused	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ground	amod
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	participle		a earthquake not said here		the hard ground		by elephant footsteps	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

An elephant rumbling too low for us to hear well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 elephant	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rumbling	nsubj
3	rumbling	rumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 low	advmod
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rumbling	xcomp
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 hear	mark
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hear	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hear	mark
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 low	advcl
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 hear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rumble	gerund	a elephant					low property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	hear	to-infinitive	us					well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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