Test 2 · ★★★ · Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myt…

«lemmings jump off cliffs on purpose, saw it on telly» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lemmings · What happens: jump off, see, be · To what, where: cliffs, purpose, telly

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 117 «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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	_	3 jump	punct
2	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jump	nsubj
3	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	5 cliffs	case
5	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jump	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jump	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jump	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 telly	case
12	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 jump	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jump	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 jump	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump off in a quote	present	lemmings	cliffs	purpose		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme on purpose=Trajectory
2	see in a quote	past	lemmings not said here	purpose	telly		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is	present				right 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

Yes, but only male lemmings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 lemmings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 lemmings	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 lemmings	advmod
5	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lemmings	amod
6	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yes, they do it every spring when there are too many of them in the hills

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl:unmarked
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 are	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	advcl
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 many	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hills	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hills	det
17	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 many	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	they	it			spring		tree rules
2	be	present	they not said here			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They do not; an old film staged it, and lemmings drown only by accident while moving

The tree, 16 words

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 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 do	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 staged	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 film	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 film	amod
7	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 staged	nsubj
8	staged	stage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 do	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 staged	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drown	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drown	cc
12	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drown	nsubj
13	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 do	conj
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 accident	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 accident	case
16	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drown	obj
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 moving	mark
18	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 drown	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not do	present	They		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stage	past	a old film	it	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	drown	present	lemmings	accident	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient
4	move	gerund	lemmings not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Lemmings can fly a little, like flying squirrels, so they are fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fly	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 squirrels	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 squirrels	case
8	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 squirrels	amod
9	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 fine	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fine	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	can	Lemmings	a little	like flying squirrels	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location little=Theme
2	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	Lemmings = lemming		fine property	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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