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Test 2 · ★ · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

A girl in Perth wants to hold her hamster while standing on a chair. Why is this a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, this · What happens: want, hold, stand, be · To what, where: hamster, chair, bad idea

This is test 2 · ★ 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 girl in Perth wants to hold her hamster while standing on a chair.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Perth	case
4	Perth	Perth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hamster	nmod:poss
9	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 standing	mark
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hold	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 chair	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chair	det
14	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a girl in Perth						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	a girl in Perth not said here	girl's hamster					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Theme
3	stand	gerund	a girl in Perth not said here			a chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=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: Why is this a bad idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 idea	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	a bad idea					tree rules

The options

Option 1

The hamster will want to climb the chair legs and run off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hamster	det
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 legs	det
8	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 legs	compound
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 climb	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 run	cc
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	future	the hamster						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	climb not said to happen	to-infinitive	the hamster not said here	the chair legs					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location leg=Theme
3	run off	infinitive	the hamster not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Standing makes the hamster sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hamster	det
4	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		the hamster				sleepy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hamster=Product

Option 3

Hamsters get dizzy when held up high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 held	advmod
5	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 get	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 held	compound:prt
7	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 held	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Hamsters					dizzy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hold up	participle	Hamsters not said here					high property	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A fall even from a short height can kill a hamster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fall	det
2	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kill	nsubj
3	even	even	ADV	_	7 height	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 height	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 height	det
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 height	amod
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fall	nmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kill	aux
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hamster	det
11	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	can	a fall from a short height	a hamster					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Theme

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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