Test 4 · ★ · How pets feel and saying goodbye
A girl in Leeds feels terrible because her pet guinea pig died of old age. Which thought is true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, guinea pig, thought · What happens: feel, die, be
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 66 «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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 Leeds feels terrible because her pet guinea pig died of old age.
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 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feels | xcomp |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 died | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pig | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guinea | compound |
| 10 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pig | compound |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feels | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 age | case |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 age | amod |
| 15 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a girl in Leeds | terrible property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | die | past | girl's guinea pig | of old age | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer |
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: Which thought is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 thought | det |
| 2 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which thought | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
She should never feel sad about pets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 feel | advmod |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 pets | case |
| 7 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feel | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | should | She | about pets; sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Guinea pigs never die of old age
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pigs | compound |
| 2 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 die | advmod |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 age | amod |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 die | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not die | present | Guinea pigs | of old age | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Most pets die of old age or illness, not because of a child
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 pets | amod |
| 2 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 die | nsubj |
| 3 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 age | case |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 age | amod |
| 6 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 die | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 illness | cc |
| 8 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 age | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 child | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 child | advmod |
| 11 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 child | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 because | fixed |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 die | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | Most pets | of old age or illness | because a child | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer |
Option 4
It must have been her fault for not looking after it well enough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fault | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fault | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fault | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fault | cop |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fault | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 looking | mark |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 looking | advmod |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fault | advcl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looking | obl |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | advmod |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 looking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must · perfect | It | her fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not look | gerund | after fault | enough, well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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