Test 2 · ★ · Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo

Why is giving a hedgehog a saucer of milk a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: give · To what, where: hedgehog

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 206 «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» 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	3 giving	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 giving	aux
3	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hedgehog	det
5	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giving	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 saucer	det
7	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giving	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 milk	case
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saucer	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 idea	det
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 idea	amod
12	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giving	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 giving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · progressive		a hedgehog					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.

The options

Option 1

Milk makes their spines fall out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spines	nmod:poss
4	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 fall	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Milk	their spines					tree rules
2	fall out	present	their spines not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Hedgehogs drink only rain water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drink	nsubj
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 water	advmod
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Hedgehogs	rain water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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

Milk makes hedgehogs ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Milk	hedgehogs				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hedgehog=Product

Option 4

Hedgehogs cannot drink at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drink	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drink	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 drink	advmod
4	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink	can	Hedgehogs			all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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