Test 3 · ★★★ · Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myt…

«the corroboree frog's poison comes from eating ants innit, like dart frogs» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poison, ants, dart frogs · What happens: come, eat, innit, be

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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	_	7 comes	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frog	det
3	corroboree	corroboree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frog	compound
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poison	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 frog	case
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 eating	mark
9	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 comes	advcl
10	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 innit	nsubj
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eating	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 frogs	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 frogs	case
14	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 frogs	compound
15	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eating	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 frogs	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 frogs	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	the corroboree frog's poison		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat in a quote	gerund	the corroboree frog's poison not said here	like dart frogs	tree rules
3	innit in a quote	infinitive	ants		tree rules
4	is	present	dart frogs	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it eats poison ants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 eats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ants	compound
6	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	it	poison ants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient

Option 2

It has no poison at all

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 poison	det
4	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 poison	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no poison		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it makes its own poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 poison	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 poison	amod
7	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	its own poison					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material poison=Product

Option 4

It gets poison from the mud

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	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 mud	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mud	det
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	It	poison		the mud			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent poison=Theme from mud=Source

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