Test 4 · ★★ · Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus

«wombat poo's square?? someone's carving it lol» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: poo square · What happens: carve, be · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 square	punct
2	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poo	compound
3	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 square	compound
4	's	's	PART	_	3 poo	case
5	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carving	nsubj
6	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 square	punct
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 carving	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 carving	aux
9	carving	carve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carving	obj
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	15 true	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 lol	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 true	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 carving	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 carving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve in a quote	present · progressive	poo square	it					tree rules
2	is	present						true 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

Wombats make cube-shaped droppings in their own gut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wombats	wombat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cube	cube	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shaped	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 shaped	punct
5	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 droppings	amod
6	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 gut	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gut	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gut	amod
10	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Wombats	shaped droppings		Wombats's own gut			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dropping=Product
2	shape	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

Wombats press each dropping flat against square stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wombats	wombat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 press	nsubj
2	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 press	obj
4	dropping	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 press	xcomp
5	flat	flat	ADV	_	4 dropping	advmod
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 stones	case
7	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stones	amod
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	Wombats	each					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent each=Recipient clause=Topic
2	drop	gerund	Wombats not said here			square stones		flat property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against stone=Trajectory

Option 3

Yes, the keepers carve it into cubes for visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 carve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 keepers	det
4	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carve	nsubj
5	carve	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carve	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 cubes	case
8	cubes	cube	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carve	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 visitors	case
10	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	present	the keepers	it		cubes		for visitors	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material into cube=Product for visitor=Beneficiary

Option 4

It is not poo but soil from digging

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	4 poo	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poo	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 poo	advmod
4	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 soil	cc
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poo	conj
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 digging	mark
8	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 poo	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	poo but soil					tree rules
2	dig	gerund							vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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