Test 6 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom
A hamster is missing from its cage. What probably happened?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hamster · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: cage
This is test 6 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 hamster is missing from its cage.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hamster | det |
| 2 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 missing | cop |
| 4 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 cage | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missing | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 missing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a hamster | hamster's cage | missing property | tree rules |
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 probably happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | probably property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Hamsters can walk through bars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamsters | hamster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 walk | aux |
| 3 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 bars | case |
| 5 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | can | Hamsters | bars | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bar=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The cage door was left open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 2 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | compound |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | the cage door | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
The cat opened the lock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lock | det |
| 5 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the cat | the lock | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lock=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
It turned invisible at night
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 | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 turned | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | It | night | invisible 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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