Test 8 · ★★★ · The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and g…
In The Emperor's New Groove, a llama spits at people all the time. What is real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: llama · What happens: spit, be · To what, where: New Groove
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: In The Emperor's New Groove, a llama spits at people all the time.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 Groove | case |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emperor | det |
| 3 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Groove | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Emperor | case |
| 5 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Groove | amod |
| 6 | Groove | Groove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spits | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Groove | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 llama | det |
| 9 | llama | llama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spits | nsubj |
| 10 | spits | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spits | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 time | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spits | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | present | a llama | the Emperor's New Groove | time | at people | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 real | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Llamas spit at every person they meet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llamas | llama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spit | nsubj |
| 2 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 person | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 person | det |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spit | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | nsubj |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 person | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | present | Llamas | at every person | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | present | Llamas = llama | every person not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent |
Option 2
Only alpacas spit, never llamas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 alpacas | advmod |
| 2 | alpacas | alpaca | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spit | nsubj |
| 3 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 llamas | punct |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 llamas | advmod |
| 6 | llamas | llama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | present | alpacas | llamas | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Llamas spit when annoyed, mostly at other llamas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llamas | llama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spit | nsubj |
| 2 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 annoyed | mark |
| 4 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spit | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 llamas | punct |
| 6 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 9 llamas | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 llamas | case |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 llamas | amod |
| 9 | llamas | llama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | present | Llamas | at other llamas | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Llamas never spit at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llamas | llama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spit | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 spit | advmod |
| 3 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 spit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spit | present | Llamas | all | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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