Test 3 · ★★ · Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus
A police officer finds a fingerprint on a tree in an Australian forest. Why might it be a puzzle?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: police officer, officer · What happens: find, be · To what, where: fingerprint, tree, puzzle
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: A police officer finds a fingerprint on a tree in an Australian forest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 officer | det |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 officer | compound |
| 3 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | nsubj |
| 4 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fingerprint | det |
| 6 | fingerprint | fingerprint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 12 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 forest | amod |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a police officer | a fingerprint | a tree | in a Australian forest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingerprint=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: Why might it be a puzzle?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 puzzle | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 puzzle | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 puzzle | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 puzzle | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 puzzle | det |
| 6 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 puzzle | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | might | officer | a puzzle | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Koala fingerprints look very like human ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Koala | koala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fingerprints | compound |
| 2 | fingerprints | fingerprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 ones | case |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Koala fingerprints | like human ones | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Wombats paint their fingerprints
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wombats | wombat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paint | nsubj |
| 2 | paint | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fingerprints | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fingerprints | fingerprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paint | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | present | Wombats | Wombats's fingerprints | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fingerprint=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fingerprint | Wombats = wombat | nom fingerprint «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Kangaroos leave lots of fingerprints on trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leave | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fingerprints | case |
| 5 | fingerprints | fingerprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lots | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | Kangaroos | lots of fingerprints | trees | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lot=Theme on tree=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Trees make their own fingerprints
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fingerprints | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fingerprints | amod |
| 5 | fingerprints | fingerprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Trees | Trees's own fingerprints | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fingerprint=Product | ||||
| 2 | fingerprint | Trees = tree | nom fingerprint «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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