Test 14 · Being gentle with small animals

cousin picked up the rabbit by its ears

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: pick up · To what, where: rabbit

This is test 14 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	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rabbit	det
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 ears	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ears	nmod:poss
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 picked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	participle	cousin	the rabbit				by cousin's ears	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=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

It's fine for big rabbits

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 rabbits	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rabbits	amod
6	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for big rabbits; fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stop him; it hurts the rabbit, lift with both hands under it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stop	obj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 hurts	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurts	nsubj
5	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rabbit	det
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurts	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lift	punct
9	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rabbit	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hands	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 hands	det
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lift	nmod
13	under	under	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality
2	hurt	present	it	the rabbit and lift with both hands		lift			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Patient

Option 3

It's fine if it doesn't squeal

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 squeal	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 squeal	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 squeal	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 squeal	advmod
8	squeal	squeal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	not squeal a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	it						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It's fine, that's how farmers do it on the farm

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 how	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 how	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 how	cop
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 do	advmod
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 farm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 farm	det
13	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				fine property	tree rules
2	is	present	that			how property	tree rules
3	do	present	farmers	it	the farm		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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