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Test 3 · ★★ · Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet

A family in Saskatchewan keeps their lizard in a cold room and turns its lamp off to save power. What will probably happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: keep, turn off, save, happen · To what, where: lizard, cold room, lamp, power

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A family in Saskatchewan keeps their lizard in a cold room and turns its lamp off to save power.

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 keeps	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Saskatchewan	case
4	Saskatchewan	Saskatchewan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lizard	nmod:poss
7	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turns	cc
13	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keeps	conj
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lamp	nmod:poss
15	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turns	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	13 turns	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	18 save	mark
18	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 turns	advcl
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 save	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a family in Saskatchewan	their lizard		a cold room			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lizard=Theme in room=Location
2	turn off	present	a family in Saskatchewan not said here	family's lamp					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient
3	save	to-infinitive	a family in Saskatchewan not said here	power					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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.

Sentence 2: What will probably happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future						probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, lizards like the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lizards	punct
3	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 cold	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lizards	nmod

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

Option 2

The lizard will make its own heat by running round and round its tank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lizard	det
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heat	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heat	amod
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 running	mark
9	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 make	advcl
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 running	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 round	cc
12	round	round	ADV	_	10 round	conj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tank	nmod:poss
14	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 running	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future	the lizard	lizard's own heat					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product
2	run	gerund	the lizard not said here	lizard's tank				round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tank=Trajectory
3	heat		lizard						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The lizard will grow fur to keep warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lizard	det
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grow	advcl
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	future	the lizard	fur					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fur=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	the lizard not said here					warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The lizard may get ill because it cannot warm itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lizard	det
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 warm	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 warm	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 warm	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 warm	advmod
10	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	advcl
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 warm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	may	the lizard					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not warm	can	lizard	lizard					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

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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