Test 6 · The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and d…

«emus won a war? you're having me on» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: emus, you · What happens: win, have on, be · To what, where: war, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct
2	emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 war	det
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 having	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 having	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 having	aux
9	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 won	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 having	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	9 having	compound:prt
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 won	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	win in a quote	past	emus	a war		tree rules
2	have on in a quote	present · progressive	you	me		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	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 · ✓ the right answer

In 1932 soldiers failed to stop emus eating wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 1932	case
2	1932	1932	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 failed	obl
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 failed	nsubj
4	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 failed	xcomp
7	emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	obj
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
9	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fail	past	soldiers		1932	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not stop	to-infinitive	soldiers not said here	emus		tree rules
3	eat	gerund	soldiers not said here	wheat		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Patient

Option 2

Emus fought against kangaroos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emus	Emus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	4 kangaroos	case
4	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Emus					against kangaroos	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Emus helped soldiers win a real war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helped	nsubj
2	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helped	obj
4	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helped	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 war	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 war	amod
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	Emus	soldiers					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent soldier=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	win	infinitive	soldiers not said here	a real war					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality

Option 4

It is just a made-up story from an old cartoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 story	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	8 story	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 story	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 cartoon	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cartoon	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cartoon	amod
12	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	It	a made story		a old cartoon			tree rules

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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