Test 5 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

Why is it bad to take shells with living animals home?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, take · To what, where: shells

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 70 «Respecting wild animals» 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 bad	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bad	nsubj
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bad	csubj
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 animals	case
9	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animals	amod
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obl
11	home	home	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					bad property	tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive		shells				with living animals; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=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

Living shells are too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shells	amod
2	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heavy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The animals die when taken from their home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 taken	advmod
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 die	advcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 home	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 home	nmod:poss
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	the animals						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	take	participle	the animals not said here			animals's home			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from home=Initial_Location

Option 3

The animals will get out and bite you at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bite	cc
7	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 bite	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	future	the animals					out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bite	present	the animals not said here	you		home			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Patient at home=Location

Option 4

Shells always break in your bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 break	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 break	advmod
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bag	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bag	nmod:poss
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	Shells			your bag		always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bag=Location

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