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title: A guinea pig mother has babies on Monday. What can they do by Monday… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vi… · tree and pragmatics
description: A guinea pig mother has babies on Monday. What can they do by Monday evening? Test 10 of lesson 201 «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C

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A guinea pig mother has babies on Monday. What can they do by Monday evening?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pig mother, babies · **What happens:** have, do · **To what, where:** babies

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This is test 10 of lesson 201 «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A guinea pig mother has babies on Monday.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t10:1
# text = A guinea pig mother has babies on Monday.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a pig mother | babies |  |  |  | on Monday | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What can they do by Monday evening?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t10:2
# text = What can they do by Monday evening?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | babies *= baby* |  |  |  | evening |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Run about with open eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t10:o1:1
# text = Run about with open eyes
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run about** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with open eyes; about *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with eye=Material |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Only drink milk lying still

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t10:o2:1
# text = Only drink milk lying still
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | milk |  |  | still |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | milk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Flap about and try to fly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t10:o3:1
# text = Flap about and try to fly
1	Flap	flap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flap** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, they are blind for weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t10:o4:1
# text = Nothing, they are blind for weeks
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  | week | blind *property* | tree rules |

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**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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