Test 4 · The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing…
In Bugs Bunny the rabbit munches carrots all day. What would a vet say?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: rabbit, vet · What happens: munch, say · To what, where: carrots, Bugs Bunny · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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
Sentence 1: In Bugs Bunny the rabbit munches carrots all day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Bunny | case |
| 2 | Bugs | Bugs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bunny | compound |
| 3 | Bunny | Bunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 munches | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 munches | nsubj |
| 6 | munches | munch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 munches | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 munches | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 munches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | munch | present | the rabbit | carrots | Bugs Bunny | day | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=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 would a vet say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 vet | det |
| 4 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | a vet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Rabbits cannot eat carrots at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 eat | advmod |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | can | Rabbits | carrots | all | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient |
Option 2
Carrots are all a rabbit ever needs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rabbit | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rabbit | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 rabbit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 needs | advmod |
| 7 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rabbit | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Carrots | a rabbit | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | need | present | a rabbit not said here | ever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 3
Rabbits need a little meat every day as well as carrots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 meat | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meat | amod |
| 5 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 need | obj |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 need | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 11 carrots | cc |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 11 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Rabbits | a little meat | day | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Too many carrots are sugary; rabbits need mostly hay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carrots | amod |
| 3 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sugary | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sugary | cop |
| 5 | sugary | sugary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
| 7 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 need | nsubj |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sugary | parataxis |
| 9 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 10 hay | advmod |
| 10 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many carrots | sugary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | rabbits | hay | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hay=Theme |
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