Test 9 · ★ · Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo

Which is TRUE about having a pet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, have · To what, where: pet

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 316 «Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo» 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	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 having	mark
5	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 TRUE	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pet	det
7	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 having	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	have	gerund		a pet					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Patient

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

You look after it all its life, even when you are tired of it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 look	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 life	det:predet
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 tired	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tired	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tired	cop
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	You	its life			after it		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	you					of life; tired property	tree rules

Option 2

A pet only needs care on school holidays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pet	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 needs	advmod
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 holidays	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 holidays	compound
8	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	a pet	care		school holidays			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme

Option 3

A pet looks after itself after the first year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pet	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 itself	case
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 looks	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a pet				after pet; year		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

You can stop caring for it once it is old, or when you are bored of it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caring	obl
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 old	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 old	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 caring	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bored	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 bored	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 bored	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 bored	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bored	cop
16	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	can	You		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	care	gerund	You not said here	for it	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
3	is	present	it	old property	tree rules
4	is	present	you	of it; bored property	tree rules

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