Test 6 · ★★ · Keeping garden wildlife safe

Why might a hedgehog be inside a pile of garden rubbish in November?

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

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 72 «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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	8 pile	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pile	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hedgehog	det
4	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pile	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 pile	cop
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 pile	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pile	det
8	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 rubbish	case
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rubbish	compound
11	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pile	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 November	case
13	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rubbish	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 pile	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	a hedgehog			a pile		of garden rubbish in November	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

It is there to keep the pile dry

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	5 keep	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	cop
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 keep	expl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pile	det
7	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			there		dry, keep property	tree rules

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

It is a sheltered place to rest and sleep

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	5 place	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rest	mark
7	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 place	acl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sleep	cc
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shelter	participle			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	It	a sheltered place	tree rules
3	rest	to-infinitive			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sleep	infinitive			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Hedgehogs eat dry sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sticks	amod
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

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

Option 4

It is looking for the bonfire to keep warm by it

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 looking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 bonfire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bonfire	det
6	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looking	advcl
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · progressive	It					for the bonfire	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bonfire=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive						by bonfire; warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location

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