Test 10 · Mammals and how they care for their young

why are puppies born with their eyes shut

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: puppies

This is test 10 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world 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	3 puppies	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 puppies	cop
3	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 puppies	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 born	obl
8	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 born	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		puppies					tree rules
2	bear	participle		puppies not said here				with puppies's eyes; shut property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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

They are blind for life until they are washed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blind	cop
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 life	case
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blind	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 washed	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 washed	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 washed	aux:pass
9	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 blind	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					for life; blind property	tree rules
2	wash	present · passive		they					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Kittens and puppies are born with eyes closed and open them later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 born	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 puppies	cc
3	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Kittens	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 born	aux:pass
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 born	obl
8	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 eyes	acl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 open	cc
10	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 born	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 open	obj
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 open	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive	Kittens and puppies	with eyes	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	close	participle	eyes not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	open	infinitive	Kittens = kitten	late property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 3

Their mum closes them to keep out the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closes	nsubj
3	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 closes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 closes	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 keep	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present	Their mum	them = they					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	keep out	to-infinitive	Their mum not said here	the light					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

Option 4

They keep them shut to save energy for growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 save	mark
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 keep	advcl
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 save	obj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 growing	mark
9	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 save	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	They	them = they	shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	save	to-infinitive	They not said here	energy		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
3	grow	gerund	They not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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