Test 6 · ★ · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…
A boy in Phoenix, Arizona, puts his hamster's cage on a sunny windowsill. What could happen?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: put, happen · To what, where: cage, sunny windowsill
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 287 «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» 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 in Phoenix, Arizona, puts his hamster's cage on a sunny windowsill.
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 | 8 puts | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Phoenix | case |
| 4 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Arizona | punct |
| 6 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Phoenix | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 boy | punct |
| 8 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hamster | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 hamster | case |
| 12 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 puts | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 windowsill | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 windowsill | det |
| 15 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 windowsill | amod |
| 16 | windowsill | windowsill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 puts | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 puts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | a boy in Phoenix and Arizona | boy's hamster's cage | a sunny windowsill | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme on windowsill=Destination |
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: What could happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The hamster will sleep better and more deeply in the warm sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hamster | det |
| 2 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleep | aux |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 sleep | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 deeply | cc |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 deeply | advmod |
| 8 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 4 sleep | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sun | amod |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deeply | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | future | the hamster | well property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, because cages keep out heat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 4 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 keep | compound:prt |
| 7 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep out | present | cages | heat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The hamster could overheat and die quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hamster | det |
| 2 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overheat | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 overheat | aux |
| 4 | overheat | overheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 die | cc |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 overheat | conj |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 die | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overheat | could | the hamster | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | die | infinitive | the hamster not said here | quickly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4
The hamster will just get a nice tan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hamster | det |
| 2 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tan | det |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tan | amod |
| 8 | tan | tan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | the hamster | a nice tan | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tan=Stimulus |
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