Test 16 · ★ · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

Noah says guinea pigs are fine living alone forever. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Noah, guinea pigs · What happens: say, be, live · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pigs	compound
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fine	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
7	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fine	advcl
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 living	advmod
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 living	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Noah		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	guinea pigs	fine property	tree rules
3	live	gerund	guinea pigs not said here	alone, forever property	vn exist-47.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, guinea pigs need company of their own kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct
3	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pigs	compound
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 kind	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 kind	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kind	amod
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 company	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	guinea pigs	company of pigs's own kind					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=Theme

Option 2

Yes, unless they squeak at night, that means they're lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 squeak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 squeak	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 squeak	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 squeak	nsubj
5	squeak	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squeak	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 means	nsubj
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lonely	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lonely	cop
13	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	squeak a condition, not said to happen	present	they	night		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	that			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	they		lonely property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, they hate other guinea pigs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hate	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pigs	amod
6	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pigs	compound
7	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	they	other guinea pigs					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pig=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, if they have a toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 have	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 toy	det
7	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	a toy					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient

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