Test 6 · Mammals and how they care for their young
Which pair shows a helpless baby and a ready-to-walk baby?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pair · What happens: show, walk · To what, where: helpless baby, baby
This is test 6 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 baby | det |
| 5 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 baby | amod |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ready | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ready | det |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 baby | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 walk | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 walk | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | parataxis |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walk | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | which pair | a helpless baby | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baby=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | walk | infinitive | baby | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme baby=Trajectory |
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
A baby giraffe and a foal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 giraffe | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giraffe | compound |
| 3 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 foal | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 foal | det |
| 6 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giraffe | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A foal and a baby zebra
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 foal | det |
| 2 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 zebra | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 zebra | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zebra | compound |
| 6 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 foal | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A puppy and a baby giraffe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 puppy | det |
| 2 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 giraffe | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 giraffe | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 giraffe | compound |
| 6 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 puppy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A kitten and a puppy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kitten | det |
| 2 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 puppy | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 puppy | det |
| 5 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kitten | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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