Test 4 · Mammals and how they care for their young

Why do kittens stay in a safe nest for the first weeks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kittens · What happens: stay · To what, where: safe nest

This is test 4 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	4 stay	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 nest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nest	det
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nest	amod
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 weeks	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 weeks	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 weeks	amod
12	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present · do-support	kittens			a safe nest	week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are born helpless with closed eyes

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 born	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 born	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		They				with closed eyes; helpless property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

They are waiting to hatch

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 waiting	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hatch	mark
5	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waiting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · progressive	They						tree rules
2	hatch	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Their mother forbids them to see 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 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forbids	nsubj
3	forbids	forbid	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 forbids	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forbids	advcl
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	present	Their mother	them = they					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	Their mother not said here	light					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus

Option 4

They are too heavy to move about on their own

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	4 heavy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 move	mark
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heavy	xcomp
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 move	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					heavy property	tree rules
2	move about	to-infinitive	They not said here			their own		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory

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