Test 11 · ★★★ · Sea lions, seals and otters
A big otter-like animal in a zoo pool clearly has ear flaps and walks on four flippers. What is it?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big like animal, animal · What happens: have, walk, be · To what, where: ear flaps, four flippers
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Sea lions, seals and otters» 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
Sentence 1: A big otter-like animal in a zoo pool clearly has ear flaps and walks on four flippers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animal | amod |
| 3 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 otter | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animal | amod |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pool | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pool | det |
| 9 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pool | compound |
| 10 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 animal | nmod |
| 11 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 12 has | advmod |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flaps | compound |
| 14 | flaps | flap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walks | cc |
| 16 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 has | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 flippers | case |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 flippers | nummod |
| 19 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 walks | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a big like animal in a zoo pool | ear flaps | clearly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient | |||
| 2 | walk | present | a big like animal in a zoo pool not said here | four flippers | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flipper=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.
Sentence 2: What is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | animal | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A sea otter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 otter | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 otter | compound |
| 3 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A harbour seal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 seal | det |
| 2 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seal | compound |
| 3 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A sea lion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lion | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lion | compound |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A young walrus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 walrus | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 walrus | amod |
| 3 | walrus | walrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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