Test 11 · Being gentle with small animals

neighbours bunny is so cute, can i just pick it up

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: neighbours bunny, i · What happens: be, pick up · To what, where: bunny

This is test 11 of lesson 288 «Being gentle with small 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bunny	compound
2	bunny	bunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cute	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cute	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 cute	advmod
5	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pick	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pick	aux
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 pick	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 pick	advmod
10	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cute	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pick	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 pick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	neighbours bunny					cute property	tree rules
2	pick up	can	i	bunny					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 · ✓ the right answer

Ask the owner first, it's their pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owner	det
3	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Ask	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pet	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pet	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pet	cop
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pet	nmod:poss
9	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the owner				first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient
2	is a	present	owner	their pet					tree rules

Option 2

Only if the owner isn't looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	7 looking	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 looking	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owner	det
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looking	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 looking	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 looking	advmod
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	present · progressive	the owner						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, all bunnies like being held

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bunnies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bunnies	det
4	bunnies	bunny	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 held	mark
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 held	aux:pass
7	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bunnies	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund · passive		all bunnies not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»

Option 4

Yes, if you're quick about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 quick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 quick	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 quick	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quick	cop
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					about it; quick property	tree rules

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