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Test 2 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures

A girl in Ohio wants to keep a firefly in a jar as a pet lamp. Why is this a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, this · What happens: want, keep, be · To what, where: firefly, jar, bad idea

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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 Ohio wants to keep a firefly in a jar as a pet lamp.

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 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	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 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 firefly	det
9	firefly	firefly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 jar	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 jar	det
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 lamp	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lamp	det
15	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lamp	compound
16	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a girl in Ohio						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	a girl in Ohio not said here	a firefly		a jar		as a pet lamp	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent firefly=Theme in jar=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

Fireflies are far too bright to keep inside a bedroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fireflies	firefly	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bright	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 bright	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 bright	advmod
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bright	advcl
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 bedroom	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bedroom	det
10	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Fireflies					bright, far property	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	Fireflies not said here			a bedroom			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent inside bedroom=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fireflies die in jars, and they glow to find each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fireflies	firefly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	nsubj
2	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 jars	case
4	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 glow	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 glow	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 glow	nsubj
8	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 die	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 glow	advcl
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 find	obj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Fireflies					in jars	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in jar=Attribute
2	glow	present	Fireflies = firefly						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	Fireflies = firefly not said here	each					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic

Option 3

Fireflies only glow in the daytime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fireflies	firefly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 glow	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 glow	advmod
3	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 daytime	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daytime	det
6	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	Fireflies			the daytime			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daytime=Location

Option 4

Fireflies eat the jar lid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fireflies	firefly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lid	det
4	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lid	compound
5	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Fireflies	the jar lid					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient

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