Test 3 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom
A kitten in Adelaide plays with a fallen lily flower. Why is that an emergency?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kitten · What happens: play, fall, be · To what, where: emergency
This is test 3 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday 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: A kitten in Adelaide plays with a fallen lily flower.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kitten | det |
| 2 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plays | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Adelaide | case |
| 4 | Adelaide | Adelaide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kitten | nmod |
| 5 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 flower | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flower | det |
| 8 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 flower | amod |
| 9 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flower | compound |
| 10 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plays | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | a kitten in Adelaide | with a fallen lily flower | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Why is that an emergency?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 emergency | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 emergency | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 emergency | mark |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 emergency | det |
| 5 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 emergency | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a emergency | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The kitten will turn yellow from the pollen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kitten | det |
| 2 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turn | xcomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 pollen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pollen | det |
| 8 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | future | the kitten | the pollen | yellow property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from pollen=Trajectory |
Option 2
Lilies make cats sleepy for an hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 make | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Lilies | cats | hour | sleepy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cat=Product |
Option 3
Lily flowers make cats sneeze only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flowers | compound |
| 2 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | sneeze | sneeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 sneeze | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Lily flowers | cats | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sneeze | infinitive | cats not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Lilies are deadly to cats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 deadly | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 deadly | cop |
| 3 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 cats | case |
| 5 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 deadly | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Lilies | to cats; deadly property | tree rules |
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