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Test 3 · ★ · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

A family in Ontario cleans the hamster cage, throws away every bit of bedding and adds new scented bedding. Why might the hamster be stressed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: clean, throw away, add, scent, stress · To what, where: hamster cage, bit, new scented bedding, hamster

This is test 3 · ★ 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 family in Ontario cleans the hamster cage, throws away every bit of bedding and adds new scented bedding.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleans	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ontario	case
4	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cage	det
7	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cage	compound
8	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleans	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 throws	punct
10	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cleans	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 throws	advmod
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throws	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 bedding	case
15	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 adds	cc
17	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 throws	conj
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bedding	amod
19	scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 bedding	amod
20	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 adds	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cleans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	a family in Ontario	the hamster cage					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cage=Patient
2	throw away	present	a family in Ontario not said here	every bit of bedding				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
3	add speech: assert	present	a family in Ontario not said here	new scented bedding					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedding=Patient
4	scent	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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 might the hamster be stressed?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stressed	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stressed	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hamster	det
4	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stressed	nsubj:pass
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 stressed	aux:pass
6	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stress	might · passive		the hamster					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Scented bedding makes hamsters hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bedding	amod
2	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scent	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Scented bedding	hamsters				hungry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hamster=Product

Option 2

The cage is now too clean to sleep in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cage	det
2	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clean	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clean	cop
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 clean	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 clean	advmod
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sleep	mark
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 clean	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cage				now	clean property	tree rules
2	sleep in	to-infinitive	the cage not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Hamsters only like dirty, smelly cages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	7 cages	advmod
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 cages	case
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cages	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dirty	punct
6	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cages	amod
7	cages	cage	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hamsters	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its home no longer smells familiar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 home	nmod:poss
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smells	nsubj
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 smells	advmod
5	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smells	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Its home					familiar, long property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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