Test 5 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures

Why do worms come up onto paths after heavy rain?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: worms · What happens: come up · To what, where: paths

This is test 5 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	7 paths	case
7	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 rain	case
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rain	amod
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	present · do-support	worms			paths	after heavy rain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto path=Initial_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.

The options

Option 1

Rain makes them hungry for stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 stones	case
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Rain	them = they				for stones; hungry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent they=Product for stone=Asset

Option 2

They are looking for a new garden to live in for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looking	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 garden	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 garden	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 garden	amod
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 live	mark
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looking	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 live	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 good	case
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · progressive	They					for a new garden	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for garden=Theme
2	live in	to-infinitive	They not said here					for good	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The ground is wet, and they can then dry out on paths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ground	det
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wet	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wet	cop
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dry	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dry	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dry	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dry	aux
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 dry	advmod
10	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wet	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 dry	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 paths	case
13	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ground					wet property	tree rules
2	dry out	can	they			paths	then		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

They want to sunbathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sunbathe	mark
4	sunbathe	sunbathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sunbathe not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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