Test 11 · The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing…

Why are guinea pigs called guinea pigs?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guinea pigs · What happens: be, call · To what, where: guinea pigs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 96 «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 pigs	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pigs	cop
3	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pigs	compound
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pigs	acl
6	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pigs	compound
7	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 called	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pigs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		guinea pigs					tree rules
2	call	participle	guinea pigs not said here	guinea pigs					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

The options

Option 1

They come from Guinea in Africa and are a kind of small pig

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 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Guinea	case
4	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Africa	case
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kind	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 pig	case
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pig	amod
13	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	They			Guinea		in Africa	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from guinea=Initial_Location
2	is a	present	They not said here	a kind				of small pig	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody is sure, as they are neither pigs nor from Guinea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 sure	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pigs	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 pigs	case
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pigs	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pigs	cop
8	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 pigs	cc:preconj
9	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sure	ccomp
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 Guinea	cc
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Guinea	case
12	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pigs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nobody					sure property	tree rules
2	is	present	they					as pigs nor Guinea	tree rules

Option 3

They oink like pigs in Guinea

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 oink	nsubj
2	oink	oink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 pigs	case
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 oink	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Guinea	case
6	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 oink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oink	present	They			Guinea		like pigs	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They were sold for one guinea coin as pigs

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 sold	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	aux:pass
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 coin	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 coin	nummod
6	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coin	compound
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 pigs	case
9	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sold	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · passive	pigs	They				for one guinea coin	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for coin=Asset

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