Test 7 · ★ · Dogs and rabbits in your care
A rabbit lives alone in a tiny hutch at the bottom of the garden. What is wrong with this?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: rabbit · What happens: live, be · To what, where: tiny hutch
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 62 «Dogs and rabbits in your care» 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: A rabbit lives alone in a tiny hutch at the bottom of the garden.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 lives | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hutch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hutch | det |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hutch | amod |
| 8 | hutch | hutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bottom | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a rabbit | a tiny hutch | at the bottom of the garden; alone property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hutch=Location |
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 is wrong with this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with this; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, rabbits like to be alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 rabbits | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 alone | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 alone | cop |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 like | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | Nothing rabbits | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Nothing rabbits not said here | alone property | tree rules |
Option 2
It should have two hutches to choose from, one for sleeping and one for eating
The tree, 15 words
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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hutches | nummod |
| 5 | hutches | hutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 choose | mark |
| 7 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hutches | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 choose | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hutches | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sleeping | case |
| 12 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 one | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 one | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 eating | mark |
| 16 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 one | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | should | It | two hutches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hutch=Patient | ||||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | two hutches not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Rabbits are social and need a friend and space to run
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 social | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 social | cop |
| 3 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 need | cc |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 social | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 friend | det |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 space | cc |
| 9 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 run | mark |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 friend | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rabbits | social property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | Rabbits not said here | a friend and space | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | Rabbits not said here | a friend and space not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Rabbits should live inside a cupboard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | aux |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 6 cupboard | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cupboard | det |
| 6 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | should | Rabbits | a cupboard | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside cupboard=Location |
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