Test 8 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

«Timon is like a squirrel innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Timon, squirrel innit · What happens: be

This is test 8 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	_	7 innit	punct
2	Timon	Timon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 innit	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 innit	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 innit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 innit	det
6	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 innit	compound
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 right	nsubj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Timon					like a squirrel innit	tree rules
2	is	present	a squirrel innit					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, a small monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 monkey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 monkey	amod
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, a kind of rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 rat	case
6	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

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

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

Meerkats are a kind of mongoose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mongoose	case
6	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Meerkats	a kind				of mongoose	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, a little desert squirrel that digs holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 squirrel	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 squirrel	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 squirrel	amod
5	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squirrel	compound
6	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 digs	nsubj
8	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 squirrel	acl:relcl
9	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 digs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	present	a little desert squirrel	holes					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme

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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