Test 7 · The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing…
What would happen to a rabbit that ate only soft food?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rabbit · What happens: happen, eat · To what, where: soft food
This is test 7 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 rabbit | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rabbit | det |
| 6 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 ate | nsubj |
| 8 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 food | advmod |
| 10 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 food | amod |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ate | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | to a rabbit | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | a rabbit | soft food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It would grow very fast
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 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grow | aux |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 grow | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | would | It | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Its teeth would grow too long
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grow | aux |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 grow | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | would | Its teeth | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Its fur would turn white
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fur | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turn | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | would | Its fur | white property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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