Test 19 · Caring for pets

someone says Zara's hamster died cos she forgot to feed it, everyone's talking about it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, hamster, everyone · What happens: say, die, forget, not feed, talk · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hamster	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Zara	case
5	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 forgot	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forgot	nsubj
9	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 feed	mark
11	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forgot	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 talking	punct
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 talking	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 talking	aux
16	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	someone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	past	Zara's hamster			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	forget	past	hamster			tree rules
4	not feed	to-infinitive	hamster not said here	it		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	talk	present · progressive	everyone		about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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

Spread it, and add that she did not care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 add	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 add	cc
5	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	conj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 care	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 care	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 care	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 care	advmod
10	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 add	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	add speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	not care	past · do-support	she		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Spread it, so she never gets another pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gets	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 gets	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gets	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 gets	advmod
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 pet	det
9	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	not get	present	she	another pet					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus

Option 3

Spread it, because it is a lesson for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lesson	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 lesson	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lesson	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lesson	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lesson	det
8	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spread	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 everyone	case
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 lesson	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a lesson				for everyone	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Do not spread it; she is probably sad and the rumour may be untrue

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sad	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sad	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sad	cop
8	probably	probably	ADV	_	9 sad	advmod
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spread	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 untrue	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rumour	det
12	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 untrue	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 untrue	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 untrue	cop
15	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is	present	she		probably, sad property	tree rules
3	is	may	the rumour		untrue property	tree rules

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