Test 9 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

Why does a fox often freeze when a rabbit lifts its head?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: rabbit · What happens: do, freeze, lift · To what, where: fox, head

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	6 freeze	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 freeze	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 freeze	advmod
6	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lifts	advcl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 lifts	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rabbit	det
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifts	nsubj
10	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifts	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 lifts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		a fox		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality
2	freeze	present	a rabbit not said here		often property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lift	present	a rabbit	rabbit's head		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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.

The options

Option 1

A fox must rest after every few steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rest	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	aux
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 steps	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 steps	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 steps	amod
8	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	must	a fox				after every few steps		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Freezing makes the fox turn invisible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Freezing	the fox					tree rules
2	turn	infinitive	the fox not said here					invisible property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The rabbit notices movement more than still shapes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 notices	nsubj
3	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 notices	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 notices	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 shapes	case
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 shapes	advmod
8	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	present	the rabbit	movement					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus

Option 4

The fox has stopped to listen to the birds singing nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	aux
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 listen	mark
6	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stopped	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 birds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 listen	obl
10	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 birds	acl
11	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	10 singing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	present · perfect	the fox		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	listen	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	to the birds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the birds not said here	nearby property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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