Test 6 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes
«hippo's sweating blood, is it hurt??» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hippo · What happens: sweat, hurt, be · To what, where: blood, hippo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 128 «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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: «hippo's sweating blood, is it hurt??»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweating | punct |
| 2 | hippo | hippo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweating | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweating | aux |
| 4 | sweating | sweat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweating | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurt | aux:pass |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sweating | ccomp |
| 10 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweating | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweat in a quote | present · progressive | hippo | blood | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt in a quote | present · passive | hippo | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, hippos bleed when hot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 bleed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | hippos | hippo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bleed | nsubj |
| 4 | bleed | bleed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 hot | advmod |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bleed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleed | present | hippos | hot property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
Option 2
Yes, it was in a fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 fight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fight | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fight | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fight | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fight | det |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | a fight | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is a red oily sunscreen, neither blood nor sweat
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 | 6 sunscreen | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sunscreen | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sunscreen | det |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sunscreen | amod |
| 5 | oily | oily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sunscreen | amod |
| 6 | sunscreen | sunscreen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blood | punct |
| 8 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 blood | cc:preconj |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sunscreen | conj |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 sweat | cc |
| 11 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sunscreen | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a red oily sunscreen neither blood nor sweat | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, call a vet at once, it is bleeding from a cut
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 call | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 vet | det |
| 5 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 call | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bleeding | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bleeding | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bleeding | aux |
| 11 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 call | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 cut | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cut | det |
| 14 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bleeding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | imperative | you not said here | a vet | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent vet=Theme at once=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bleed | present · progressive | vet | a cut | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from cut=Source |
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