Test 5 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

Why might a fox or raccoon that seems tame and walks up to people be dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox, people · What happens: seem, walk up, be

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fox	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 raccoon	cc
6	raccoon	raccoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fox	conj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 seems	nsubj
8	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fox	acl:relcl
9	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seems	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 walks	cc
11	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 seems	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 walks	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 dangerous	case
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dangerous	nsubj
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 dangerous	cop
16	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 walks	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	seem	present	a fox or raccoon	tame property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	walk up	present	a fox or raccoon not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	infinitive	people	dangerous property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Wild animals are friendliest when they are ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 friendliest	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 friendliest	cop
4	friendliest	friendly	ADV	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 ill	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ill	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ill	cop
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friendliest	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wild animals					friendly property	tree rules
2	is	present	animals = animal					ill property	tree rules

Option 2

Tame animals always want food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Tame animals	food				always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It may be sick, and some animals carry rabies

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	4 sick	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sick	cop
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carry	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 carry	cc
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carry	nsubj
9	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	conj
10	rabies	rabies	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	It					sick property	tree rules
2	carry	present	some animals	rabies					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabies=Theme

Option 4

It is lost and wants to be somebody's pet

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 lost	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wants	cc
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 somebody	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 somebody	cop
8	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 pet	compound
9	's	's	PART	_	8 somebody	case
10	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive	It		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	want	present	somebody pet		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pet=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive		's somebody	tree rules

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