Test 13 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours
hedgehog in the garden, can i give it some milk
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hedgehog · What happens: give · To what, where: garden
This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 69 «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 garden | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 garden | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 hedgehog | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 hedgehog | punct |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 7 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | obj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 milk | det |
| 11 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | hedgehog in the garden | garden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient milk=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.
The options
Option 1
Only give it milk with bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 give | advmod |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 give | obj |
| 4 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 bread | case |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | it | with bread | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient milk=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, hedgehogs love a bowl of milk, it's their fave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 love | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 love | nsubj |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bowl | det |
| 6 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 milk | case |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bowl | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fave | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fave | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fave | cop |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fave | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fave | fave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | hedgehogs | a bowl of milk | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bowl=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | bowl | hedgehogs's fave | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, milk makes them ill, give water or cat food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 makes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | parataxis |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 food | cc |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 food | compound |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | milk | them = they | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | water or cat food | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, but warm the milk a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 warm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 warm | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 warm | cc |
| 4 | warm | warm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 milk | det |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warm | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warm | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | imperative | you not said here | the milk | a bit obl:unmarked | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
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