Test 7 · What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in

«sod it, mate says a city's not a real habitat, only wild places count» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sod mate, city, wild places · What happens: say, not be, count, be · To what, where: real habitat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 1 «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
2	sod	sod	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mate	compound
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sod	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sod	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 habitat	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 habitat	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 habitat	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 habitat	det
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 habitat	amod
13	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 count	punct
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 places	advmod
16	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 places	amod
17	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 count	nsubj
18	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 habitat	conj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 count	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 count	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	sod mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	present	a city	a real habitat		tree rules
3	count in a quote	present	wild places			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present			right property	tree rules

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

He's right, animals only live in wild places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 live	advmod
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 places	case
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 places	amod
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	live	present	right animals			wild places			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A city is a habitat too: foxes, pigeons and mice find food and shelter there

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 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 habitat	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 habitat	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 habitat	det
5	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 habitat	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 foxes	punct
8	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 find	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pigeons	punct
10	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 foxes	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mice	cc
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 foxes	conj
13	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 habitat	parataxis
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shelter	cc
16	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 food	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a city	a habitat					tree rules
2	find	present	foxes and pigeons and mice	food and shelter		there			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 3

A city counts only for insects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counts	nsubj
3	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 insects	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 insects	case
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	a city	insects					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme

Option 4

He's right, city animals are all pets that escaped from their homes long ago

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pets	punct
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animals	compound
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pets	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pets	cop
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 pets	advmod
9	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	parataxis
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 escaped	nsubj
11	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pets	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 homes	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 homes	nmod:poss
14	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 escaped	obl
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 ago	advmod
16	ago	ago	ADV	_	11 escaped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			right property	tree rules
2	is a	present	city animals	pets		all property	tree rules
3	escape	past	pets		animals's homes	ago property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location

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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