Test 15 · ★★ · Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet

want a parrot, how hard can it be

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 64 «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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	want	want	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parrot	det
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 want	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hard	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 want	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 it	aux
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 want	obj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	1 want	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						hard, want property	tree rules

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

Easy, they never make noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Easy	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 make	advmod
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present	they	noise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product

Option 2

Easy, they just sit there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sit	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Easy	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sit	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod
5	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	they			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Very hard, they live for decades and need lots of care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 hard	advmod
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 live	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hard	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 decades	case
7	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 need	cc
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 live	conj
10	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 need	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 care	case
12	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	they				decade	hard property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present	they not said here	lots of care					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme

Option 4

Easy, they eat once a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eat	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Easy	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 eat	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	they	Easy				once property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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