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Test 6 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

A family finds a hedgehog in their Dublin garden and puts out a saucer of milk. Why is this a mistake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, this · What happens: find, put out, be · To what, where: hedgehog, Dublin garden, saucer

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A family finds a hedgehog in their Dublin garden and puts out a saucer of milk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hedgehog	det
5	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 garden	nmod:poss
8	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 garden	compound
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 puts	cc
11	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 puts	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 saucer	det
14	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 puts	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 milk	case
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saucer	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	a family	a hedgehog		their Dublin garden			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Topic
2	put out	present	a family not said here	a saucer of milk					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent saucer=Goal

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 mistake?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Why	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					why property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Milk is too cold for hedgehogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 hedgehogs	case
6	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Milk					for hedgehogs; cold property	tree rules

Option 2

Hedgehogs only drink juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drink	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 drink	advmod
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Milk makes hedgehogs ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Milk	hedgehogs				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hedgehog=Product

Option 4

Hedgehogs cannot reach saucers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reach	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 reach	advmod
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	saucers	saucer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	can	Hedgehogs	saucers					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent saucer=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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