Test 9 · ★ · Dogs and rabbits in your care

Which is true about rabbit teeth?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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

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	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teeth	compound
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about rabbit teeth; 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

They fall out and grow back every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fall	nsubj
2	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 fall	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grow	cc
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fall	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	present	They						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow back	present	They not said here				year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They are only used for eating carrots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 used	advcl
7	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		They					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	eat	gerund		carrots					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They stop growing when the rabbit is one year old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 old	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 year	nummod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	They			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	They not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the rabbit	year	old property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They keep growing and need chewing to wear them down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 need	cc
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	conj
6	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 need	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wear	mark
8	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chewing	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wear	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 wear	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present	They		tree rules
2	grow	gerund	They not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	need	present	They not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	chew not said to happen	gerund	They not said here		tree rules
5	wear down	to-infinitive	They not said here	them = they	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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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