Test 5 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

«warthogs have warts, gross, can u catch them» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: warthogs, u · What happens: have, catch, be · To what, where: warts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 125 «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» 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 have	punct
2	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	ccomp
4	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gross	punct
6	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warts	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	aux
9	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 catch	nsubj
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 catch	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 catch	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 catch	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	warthogs	warts		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wart=Patient
2	catch in a quote	can	u	warts = wart		tree rules
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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, you catch warts from touching them, just like from toads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 catch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 catch	nsubj
4	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 catch	obj
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 touching	mark
7	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 catch	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touching	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 toads	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 toads	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 toads	case
12	from	from	ADP	_	11 like	fixed
13	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	you	warts				like toads	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wart=Theme
2	touch	gerund	you not said here	warts = wart					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They are not warts but bumpy pads protecting the face in fights

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 warts	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warts	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 warts	advmod
4	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 pads	cc
6	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pads	amod
7	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warts	conj
8	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 pads	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 face	det
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protecting	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 fights	case
12	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 protecting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	They	warts but bumpy pads					tree rules
2	protect	gerund	bumpy pads not said here	the face		fights			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Beneficiary

Option 3

Yes, they are a skin disease

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 disease	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 disease	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 disease	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 disease	det
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disease	compound
7	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	a skin disease					tree rules

Option 4

They are spots of dirt

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 spots	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spots	cop
3	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 dirt	case
5	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	spots				of dirt	tree rules

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