Test 10 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

why do rabbits have eyes on the sides

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rabbits · What happens: have · To what, where: eyes, sides

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Thinking about noticing» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 have	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 sides	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sides	det
8	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	rabbits	eyes		the sides			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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

To see in the dark like owls and cats do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 do	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 dark	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dark	det
5	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 owls	case
7	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cats	cc
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 owls	conj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive				the dark		like owls and cats	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	present							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To see almost all around for danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 all	advmod
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 around	advmod
5	around	around	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 danger	case
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive						for danger; around property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

To look cuter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cuter	cute	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						cute property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

To smell better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 smell	mark
2	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 smell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	to-infinitive						well property	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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