Test 11 · ★ · Kindness to animals

how do i hold the guinea pig, mum's busy

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: hold · To what, where: guinea pig

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 207 «Kindness to animals» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hold	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
3	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nsubj
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pig	det
6	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pig	compound
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mum	punct
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
10	's	's	PART	_	9 mum	case
11	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hold	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present · do-support	i	the guinea pig				's mum; busy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=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 · ← Mova's choice

By the scruff, up high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 scruff	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scruff	det
3	scruff	scruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 high	punct
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scruff	amod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

On your head so he can see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 head	case
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 see	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 head	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	he	your head not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus

Option 3

By one leg so he can't wriggle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 leg	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 leg	nummod
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 wriggle	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wriggle	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wriggle	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 wriggle	advmod
8	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leg	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wriggle	can	he	one leg not said here					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Gently with both hands, close to you and low down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gently	gently	ADV	_	4 hands	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 hands	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hands	det
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 close	punct
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hands	amod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 close	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 down	cc
10	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 down	advmod
11	down	down	ADV	_	6 close	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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