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Test 2 · ★ · The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wil…

In Disney's Fantasia, hippos in tutus dance across the water. What is real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hippos · What happens: dance, be · To what, where: Fantasia

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 102 «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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: In Disney's Fantasia, hippos in tutus dance across the water.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 Fantasia	case
2	Disney	Disney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fantasia	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Disney	case
4	Fantasia	Fantasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dance	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Fantasia	punct
6	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dance	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 tutus	case
8	tutus	tutu	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hippos	nmod
9	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dance	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	hippos in tutus			Disney's Fantasia		across the water	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fantasia=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.

Sentence 2: What is real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						real property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hippos float high and spin round and round on the surface

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 float	nsubj
2	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 float	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 spin	cc
5	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 float	conj
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 spin	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 round	cc
8	round	round	ADV	_	6 round	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 surface	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 surface	det
11	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spin	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	Hippos					high property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spin	present	Hippos not said here			the surface		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory

Option 2

Hippos swim gracefully like ballerinas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swim	nsubj
2	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	2 swim	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 ballerinas	case
5	ballerinas	ballerina	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	Hippos					like ballerinas; gracefully property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Hippos cannot go into water at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	can	Hippos			water		at all	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hippos sink and walk or bounce on the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sink	nsubj
2	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walk	cc
4	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sink	conj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 bounce	cc
6	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sink	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bottom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottom	det
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bounce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	Hippos						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	walk	present	Hippos not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bounce	present	Hippos not said here			the bottom			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bottom=Trajectory

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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