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Test 5 · Caring for pets

A boy wakes his hamster at noon to play. Why might it bite him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, hamster · What happens: wake, play, bite · To what, where: hamster, boy

This is test 5 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

Sentence 1: A boy wakes his hamster at noon to play.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wakes	nsubj
3	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hamster	nmod:poss
5	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wakes	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 noon	case
7	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wakes	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 play	mark
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wakes	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wakes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	present	a boy	boy's hamster			noon		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hamster=Patient
2	play	to-infinitive	a boy not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: Why might it bite him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 bite	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bite	nsubj
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bite	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	might	hamster	boy					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

The options

Option 1

Hamsters always bite at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 noon	case
5	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Hamsters				noon	always property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It thinks his finger is a carrot

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	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 finger	nmod:poss
4	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carrot	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 carrot	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 carrot	det
7	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	It						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	his finger	a carrot					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was woken from its daytime sleep and is scared

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 woken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 woken	aux:pass
3	woken	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sleep	nmod:poss
6	daytime	daytime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sleep	amod
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woken	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scared	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 scared	cop
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woken	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past · passive		It		its daytime sleep			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	is	present						scared property	tree rules
3	sleep		its = it						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Hamsters bite whenever they are hungry, whatever the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	nsubj
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	6 hungry	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bite	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 whatever	punct
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 bite	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whatever	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Hamsters						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Hamsters = hamster					hungry property	tree rules

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