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Test 4 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures

A boy brings a caterpillar to school and keeps it in a closed jar with no leaves for a week. What will probably happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: bring, keep, close, happen · To what, where: caterpillar, school, closed jar

This is test 4 · ★ 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 boy brings a caterpillar to school and keeps it in a closed jar with no leaves for a week.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brings	nsubj
3	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 caterpillar	det
5	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brings	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brings	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keeps	cc
9	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brings	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keeps	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 jar	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 jar	det
13	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 jar	amod
14	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keeps	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 leaves	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 leaves	det
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 jar	nmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 week	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 week	det
20	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leaves	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brings	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	a boy	a caterpillar		school			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Theme to school=Destination
2	keep	present	a boy not said here	caterpillar		a closed jar with no leaves for a week			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in jar=Location
3	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

It will grow bigger in the dark

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	3 grow	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	future	It			the dark		big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 2

Nothing, caterpillars need nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 caterpillars	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Nothing caterpillars	nothing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme

Option 3

It will turn into a butterfly much faster than outside

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	3 turn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 butterfly	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 butterfly	det
6	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 faster	advmod
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 turn	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 outside	case
10	outside	outside	ADV	_	8 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	future	It					into a butterfly result; fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into butterfly=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It will die, because insects need air, food and damp

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	3 die	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 die	aux
3	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 need	mark
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 die	conj
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 food	punct
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 air	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 damp	cc
12	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 air	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	future	It						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	need	present	insects	air and food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme

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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