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Test 10 · The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and d…

«look, a baby kangaroo» says your brother about a small adult. What could it really be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, kangaroo · What happens: look, say, be · To what, where: baby kangaroo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 103 «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» 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: «look, a baby kangaroo» says your brother about a small adult.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
2	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kangaroo	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kangaroo	compound
6	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 adult	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 adult	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 adult	amod
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brother	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive		a baby kangaroo					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kangaroo=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	present	your brother about a small adult						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 could it really be?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 be	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 be	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 be	advmod
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	can	could	kangaroo						vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A wallaby, a smaller kangaroo relative

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wallaby	det
2	wallaby	wallaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 relative	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kangaroo	det
5	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 kangaroo	amod
6	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relative	compound
7	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wallaby	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A dingo puppy that has learned to hop about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 puppy	det
2	dingo	dingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puppy	compound
3	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 learned	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 learned	aux
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 puppy	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hop	mark
8	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 learned	xcomp
9	about	about	ADV	_	8 hop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present · perfect	a dingo puppy						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hop about	to-infinitive	a dingo puppy not said here					about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A wombat standing up on its back legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wombat	det
2	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wombat	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 standing	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 legs	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 legs	compound
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	gerund	a wombat not said here			wombat's back legs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location

Option 4

A young emu with its feathers fluffed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 emu	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 emu	amod
3	emu	emu	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 feathers	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feathers	nmod:poss
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 emu	nmod
7	fluffed	fluff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 feathers	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 fluffed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fluff up	participle		emu's feathers not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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