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Test 1 · ★ · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

A boy in Manchester buys two guinea pigs but feeds them only dry pellets and water. What is missing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: buy, feed, be · To what, where: two guinea pigs, pigs

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 63 «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» 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 boy in Manchester buys two guinea pigs but feeds them only dry pellets and water.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buys	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Manchester	case
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	buys	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pigs	nummod
7	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pigs	compound
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 buys	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 feeds	cc
10	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 buys	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 feeds	obj
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 pellets	advmod
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pellets	amod
14	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 feeds	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 water	cc
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pellets	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 buys	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	a boy in Manchester	two guinea pigs					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme
2	feed	present	a boy in Manchester not said here	pigs = pig				dry pellets and water obl	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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 missing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 missing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 missing	cop
3	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 missing	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Meat for protein

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 protein	case
3	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Meat	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, pellets and water are all that guinea pigs need

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 pigs	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pellets	punct
3	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 water	cc
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pigs	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	10 pigs	advmod
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 pigs	nsubj
9	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pigs	compound
10	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 need	nsubj
11	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	guinea pigs				all property	tree rules
2	need	present	guinea pigs						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

Milk for strong bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 bones	case
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bones	amod
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Milk	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fresh vegetables for vitamin C every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 vegetables	amod
2	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 C	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 vitamin	case
4	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vegetables	nmod
5	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 C	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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