Test 12 · ★★★ · The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and g…

«capybaras are just giant guinea pigs with birds on top lol» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: capybaras, giant guinea pigs · What happens: be · To what, where: giant guinea pigs

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 108 «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» 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	_	7 pigs	punct
2	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pigs	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pigs	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 pigs	advmod
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pigs	amod
6	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pigs	compound
7	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 true	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 birds	case
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pigs	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 top	case
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 birds	nmod
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	16 true	discourse
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 lol	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 true	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	capybaras	giant guinea pigs				with birds on top	tree rules
2	is	present	giant guinea pigs					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

They are a kind of wild pig that lives in rivers and swamps

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 pig	case
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pig	amod
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lives	nsubj
9	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 rivers	case
11	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lives	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 swamps	cc
13	swamps	swamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rivers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	a kind				of wild pig	tree rules
2	live	present	a kind			rivers and swamps			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location

Option 2

They carry birds to keep warm

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 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carry	advcl
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	They	birds					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	They not said here					warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

They are huge, calm rodents that let birds sit on them

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 huge	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	cop
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rodents	punct
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rodents	amod
6	rodents	rodent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 huge	appos
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 let	nsubj
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rodents	acl:relcl
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 let	obj
10	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	They		huge property	tree rules
2	let	present	calm rodents	birds		tree rules
3	sit	infinitive	birds not said here		on birds = bird	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location

Option 4

They are a kind of small hippo

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 hippo	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hippo	amod
7	hippo	hippo	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 hippo	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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