Test 3 · ★★ · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Only big animals can hurt people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 animals	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	can	big animals	people					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient

Option 2

Wild animals are just like pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pets	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pets	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 pets	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 pets	case
6	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wild animals					like pets	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A fed wild animal can become dangerous to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 animal	det
2	fed	fed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animal	amod
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animal	amod
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 become	aux
6	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 become	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	can	a fed wild animal					dangerous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Feeding wild animals always helps them get through winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 helps	csubj
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Feeding	obj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 helps	advmod
5	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 helps	obj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 helps	xcomp
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 winter	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund			wild animals			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient
2	help	present	Feeding	animals = animal			always property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	get	infinitive	animals = animal not said here			winter		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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