Test 2 · Feeding times and the zoo kitchen
Peppa-style picture books show monkeys munching bananas all day. What do many zoo monkeys get?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: picture books, monkeys, many zoo monkeys · What happens: show, munch, be, get · To what, where: monkeys, bananas
This is test 2 of lesson 111 «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» 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: Peppa-style picture books show monkeys munching bananas all day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peppa | Peppa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 style | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Peppa | punct |
| 3 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picture | compound |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 books | compound |
| 5 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 show | nsubj |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 show | obj |
| 8 | munching | munch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 monkeys | acl |
| 9 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 munching | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 munching | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | picture books | monkeys | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | munch | gerund | monkeys not said here | bananas | day | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=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 do many zoo monkeys get?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 monkeys | amod |
| 4 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 monkeys | compound |
| 5 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | many zoo monkeys | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only bananas, three times a day, as that is all monkeys eat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 bananas | advmod |
| 2 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bananas | punct |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bananas | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bananas | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 bananas | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 eat | cop |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 monkeys | det |
| 13 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bananas as that and three times a day | eat property | tree rules |
Option 2
Only meat and fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 meat | advmod |
| 2 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fish | cc |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Only crisps given by visitors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 crisps | advmod |
| 2 | crisps | crisp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 crisps | xcomp |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 visitors | case |
| 5 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crisp | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | give | participle | by visitors | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Mostly leafy vegetables, with sweet fruit only as a treat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 2 leafy | advmod |
| 2 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vegetables | amod |
| 3 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fruit | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fruit | case |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fruit | amod |
| 7 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vegetables | conj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 treat | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 treat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 treat | det |
| 11 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vegetables | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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