Test 3 · Caring for pets

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 3 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	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 · ✓ the right answer

A hamster sleeps in the day and wakes at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hamster	det
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	nsubj
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wakes	cc
8	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleeps	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wakes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	a hamster				day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake	present	a hamster not said here				night		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A hamster sleeps all night like us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hamster	det
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	nsubj
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	obl:unmarked
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	a hamster				night	like us	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Fish do not need clean water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Fish	clean water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

Option 4

A rabbit is happiest on its own in a tiny hutch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happiest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happiest	cop
4	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happiest	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 hutch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hutch	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hutch	amod
11	hutch	hutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happiest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a rabbit			rabbit's own		in a tiny hutch; happy property	tree rules

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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