Test 19 · ★ · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

Mia's guinea pig died and someone said she killed it by not feeding it, should i tell people

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guinea pig, someone, pig, i · What happens: die, say, kill, not feed, tell · To what, where: it, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pig	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mia	case
3	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pig	compound
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 killed	nsubj
10	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 killed	obj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 feeding	mark
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 feeding	advmod
14	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 killed	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feeding	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
18	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 died	conj
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	die	past	Mia's guinea pig			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	someone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	kill	past	pig	it		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not feed	gerund	pig not said here	it		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	should	i		people	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because pets die from hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 die	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 die	mark
4	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 die	nsubj
5	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 hunger	case
7	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	pets			hunger			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from hunger=Causer

Option 2

Yes, and add that she did not care and forgot about it for weeks

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 add	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 add	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 add	cc
4	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 care	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 care	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 care	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 care	advmod
9	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 add	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 forgot	cc
11	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 care	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forgot	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 weeks	case
15	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 forgot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	not care	past · do-support	she			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	forget	past	she not said here	week	about it	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No; it is unkind, likely untrue, and she is probably sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unkind	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unkind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unkind	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 untrue	punct
7	likely	likely	ADV	_	8 untrue	advmod
8	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 unkind	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sad	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sad	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sad	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sad	cop
13	probably	probably	ADV	_	14 sad	advmod
14	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 unkind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	unkind property	tree rules
2	be			likely property	tree rules
3	is	present	she	probably, sad property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, so she never gets another pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 gets	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gets	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 gets	advmod
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 pet	det
8	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	she	another pet					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus

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