Test 2 · Being gentle with small animals

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	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

Animals like being chased by children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chased	nsubj:pass
2	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 chased	mark
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 chased	aux:pass
4	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund · passive	children	Animals					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

Loud voices make pets feel safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 voices	amod
2	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Loud voices	pets					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	pets not said here					safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Small animals are never afraid of people, even very big ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 afraid	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 afraid	advmod
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 afraid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ones	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	12 ones	advmod
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 big	advmod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 afraid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Small animals					of people; afraid property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A small animal sees a person as a giant, so quick moves scare it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	nsubj
4	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 giant	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sees	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scare	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 scare	advmod
12	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 moves	amod
13	moves	move	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scare	nsubj
14	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sees	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a small animal	a person					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
2	scare	present	quick moves	person					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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