Test 9 · ★★ · Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home
Your grandparents' rabbit lives alone and seems dull. What might help it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rabbit · What happens: live, seem, help · To what, where: rabbit
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths 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: Your grandparents' rabbit lives alone and seems dull.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandparents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rabbit | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 grandparents | case |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 lives | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seems | cc |
| 8 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lives | conj |
| 9 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seems | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Your grandparents's rabbit | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | Your grandparents's rabbit not said here | dull property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What might help it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | might | rabbit | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A carrot every hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 carrot | det |
| 2 | carrot | carrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carrot | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Keeping it in the dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keeping | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 dark | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dark | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keeping | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | it | the dark | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in dark=Location |
Option 3
A mirror in the hutch so it thinks it has a friend there all day
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mirror | det |
| 2 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hutch | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hutch | det |
| 5 | hutch | hutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mirror | nmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 thinks | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thinks | nsubj |
| 8 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thinks | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 has | advmod |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | a mirror in the hutch | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | mirror | a friend | there | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A rabbit friend and more space, with advice from a charity
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | compound |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 space | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 space | amod |
| 6 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 advice | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 advice | case |
| 9 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 charity | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 charity | det |
| 12 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 advice | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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