Test 17 · Being gentle with small animals

my brother says a guinea pig bit a girl's finger and "it got infected and her hand swelled up massive". what's the true bit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, guinea pig, pig, hand · What happens: say, bite, get, swell up, be · To what, where: finger, true bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pig	det
5	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pig	compound
6	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nsubj
7	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 finger	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 girl	case
11	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	conj
16	infected	infected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 got	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 swelled	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swelled	nsubj
20	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 swelled	compound:prt
22	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 swelled	xcomp
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 swelled	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 bit	nsubj
26	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 bit	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bit	det
28	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bit	amod
29	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bite	past	a guinea pig	a girl's finger		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
3	get in a quote	past	pig		infected property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	swell up in a quote	past	girl's hand		massive property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	is a	present		the true bit		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

Every animal bite makes your hand swell up massive like that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bite	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	compound
3	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	swell	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 makes	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 swell	compound:prt
9	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 makes	xcomp
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 massive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	every animal bite	your hand				massive property	tree rules
2	swell up	present	your hand not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Guinea pigs bite for no reason at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pigs	compound
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 reason	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 reason	det
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Guinea pigs					for no reason; at all	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at all=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A scared small animal may bite and bites can get infected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 animal	det
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animal	amod
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animal	amod
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bite	aux
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
8	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bite	conj
11	infected	infected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	may	a scared small animal						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	get	can	bites					infected property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Small animal bites are always harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bites	amod
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bites	compound
3	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 harmless	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 harmless	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 harmless	advmod
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Small animal bites					always, harmless property	tree rules

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