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Test 2 · ★★ · Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus

Taz from Looney Tunes spins like a tornado and eats anything. What is true of real devils?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Taz · What happens: spin, eat, be · To what, where: anything

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 104 «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» 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: Taz from Looney Tunes spins like a tornado and eats anything.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taz	Taz	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spins	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 Tunes	case
3	Looney	Looney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tunes	compound
4	Tunes	Tune	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Taz	nmod
5	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 tornado	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tornado	det
8	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spins	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eats	cc
10	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spins	conj
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 eats	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spins	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	Taz from Looney Tunes					like a tornado	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	present	Taz from Looney Tunes not said here	anything					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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 true of real devils?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 devils	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 devils	amod
6	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

They are a kind of small bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bear	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bear	amod
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	a kind				of small bear	tree rules

Option 2

They only eat leaves and grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grass	cc
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	leaves and grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They do not spin, but they screech and eat bones and fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spin	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spin	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 spin	advmod
4	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 screech	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 screech	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 screech	nsubj
8	screech	screech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spin	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eat	cc
10	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 screech	conj
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fur	cc
13	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bones	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spin	present · do-support	They						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	screech	present	they						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	present	they not said here	bones and fur					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 4

They spin round fast like a tornado whenever they are angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spin	nsubj
2	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 spin	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 spin	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 tornado	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tornado	det
7	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spin	obl
8	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	11 angry	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 angry	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 angry	cop
11	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spin	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin round	present	They					like a tornado; fast, round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	they					angry property	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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