Test 16 · Caring for pets

forgot to give the hamster water for 3 days

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: forget, not give · To what, where: hamster water

This is test 16 of lesson 27 «Caring for pets» 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	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 give	mark
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 forgot	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
5	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past							tree rules
2	not give	to-infinitive		the hamster water			day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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

Wait and see if it gets thirsty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 see	cc
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 gets	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	advcl
7	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	get a condition, not said to happen	present	it	thirsty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It is fine, hamsters do not drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hamsters	punct
5	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drink	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drink	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 drink	advmod
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fine	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	not drink	present · do-support	hamsters						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Give it extra food instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	extra food	it			instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Give it water now and tell an adult, it may be ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Give	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ill	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ill	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 ill	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 ill	cop
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Give	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	water	it	now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient water=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	is	may	adult				ill property	tree rules

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