Test 2 · The pet that loves you most
Maddie: «the rabbit's fine, it can go a few days without water». What would most likely happen?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Maddie, rabbit · What happens: be, go, happen
This is test 2 of lesson 460 «The pet that loves you most» 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
Sentence 1: Maddie: «the rabbit's fine, it can go a few days without water».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 fine | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 fine | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fine | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fine | cop |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fine | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 days | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 fine | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Maddie | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | can | rabbit | day | without water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: What would most likely happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 happen | advmod |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | likely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
It would be totally fine
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 | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fine | cop |
| 4 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 5 fine | advmod |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | It | fine, totally property | tree rules |
Option 2
It would drink rainwater
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 drink | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 drink | aux |
| 3 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | rainwater | rainwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drink | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | would | It | rainwater | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rainwater=Patient |
Option 3
It would learn to need less
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 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 learn | aux |
| 3 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 need | mark |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 learn | xcomp |
| 6 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 need | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | would | It | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | need | to-infinitive | less property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It could become dangerously ill
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 become | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | dangerously | dangerously | ADV | _ | 5 ill | advmod |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 become | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | could | It | ill property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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