Test 11 · ★ · Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys

«why do golden monkeys have tiny squashed noses, so ugly» What may the reason be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: golden monkeys · What happens: do, have, squash, be · To what, where: tiny squashed noses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 137 «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» 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 do	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 do	advmod
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 monkeys	amod
5	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 do	ccomp
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 noses	amod
8	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 noses	amod
9	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ugly	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 ugly	advmod
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 do	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 ugly	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 be	obj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 be	aux
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 reason	det
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 be	nsubj
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 ugly	cop
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present				tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	golden monkeys	tiny squashed noses		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
3	squash in a quote	participle				vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	infinitive			ugly 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 · ✓ the right answer

A tiny upturned nose may help prevent frostbite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nose	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nose	amod
3	upturned	upturn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 nose	amod
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
8	frostbite	frostbite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prevent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	upturn	participle			tree rules
2	help	may	a tiny upturned nose		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	prevent	infinitive	a tiny upturned nose not said here	frostbite	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer frostbite=Theme

Option 2

It helps them smell bananas

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 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	smell	infinitive	them = they not said here	bananas					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer banana=Stimulus

Option 3

They broke them in fights with other monkeys long ago

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 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 fights	case
5	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 monkeys	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 monkeys	amod
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 ago	advmod
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 broke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	They	them = they		fights		with other monkeys; ago property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with monkey=Instrument

Option 4

It is just bad luck

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	5 luck	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 luck	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 luck	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 luck	amod
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	bad luck					tree rules

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