Test 5 · ★ · Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo
A raccoon walks up to a boy in New Jersey in the daytime. What should he do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: raccoon · What happens: walk up, do · To what, where: daytime
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A raccoon walks up to a boy in New Jersey in the daytime.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 raccoon | det |
| 2 | raccoon | raccoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | nsubj |
| 3 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 walks | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Jersey | case |
| 9 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Jersey | amod |
| 10 | Jersey | Jersey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 daytime | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 daytime | det |
| 13 | daytime | daytime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk up | present | a raccoon | the daytime | to a boy in New Jersey result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to boy=Result |
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 should he do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | raccoon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Follow it to its nest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Follow | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 nest | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Follow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | it | its nest | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to nest=Trajectory |
Option 2
Pick it up, since it seems tame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pick | obj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Pick | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seems | punct |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 seems | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seems | nsubj |
| 7 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pick | parataxis |
| 8 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seems | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | imperative | you not said here | it | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | it | tame property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Move away and tell an adult, because raccoons can bite and carry rabies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Move | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Move | conj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 adult | det |
| 6 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bite | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 bite | mark |
| 9 | raccoons | raccoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bite | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bite | aux |
| 11 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Move | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carry | cc |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Move | conj |
| 14 | rabies | rabies | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bite | can | raccoons | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | carry | infinitive | you not said here | rabies | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabies=Theme |
Option 4
Offer it a snack from his hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Offer | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 snack | det |
| 4 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Offer | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Offer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | imperative | you not said here | it | his hand | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent it=Goal snack=Theme |
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