Test 6 · ★ · Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys

«green stick on the bush just moved, wtf» What is it most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: green stick · What happens: move, be · To what, where: wtf, stick

This is test 6 · ★ 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 stick	punct
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stick	amod
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moved	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bush	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bush	det
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stick	nmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 moved	advmod
8	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wtf	punct
10	wtf	wtf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moved	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 wtf	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 moved	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 it	cop
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 What	nsubj
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 likely	advmod
16	likely	likely	ADV	_	12 What	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 moved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move in a quote	past	green stick on the bush	wtf					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wtf=Theme
2	is a	present		stick					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

A leaf eating a fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 leaf	det
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 leaf	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fly	det
5	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	a leaf not said here	a fly					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient

Option 2

A twig moved by magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 twig	det
2	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 twig	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 magic	case
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	participle		a twig not said here				by magic	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by magic=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A mantis or stick insect camouflaged as a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 insect	det
2	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 insect	compound
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 stick	cc
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mantis	conj
5	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	camouflaged	camouflage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 insect	acl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 camouflaged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	camouflage	participle		a mantis insect not said here				as a stick	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A snake pretending to be a stick so that birds leave it alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretending	nsubj
3	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 stick	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 stick	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretending	xcomp
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 leave	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 leave	nsubj
11	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pretending	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 leave	obj
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund	a snake			tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	a snake not said here	a stick		tree rules
3	leave	present	birds	snake	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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