Test 5 · Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls

«skunks spray at anything for fun, they're evil» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: skunks · What happens: spray, be · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 143 «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» 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 spray	punct
2	skunks	skunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spray	nsubj
3	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 evil	parataxis
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 spray	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 fun	case
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anything	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spray	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 evil	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 evil	cop
11	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 evil	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	11 evil	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 evil	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	spray in a quote	present	skunks	anything		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at anything=Destination
2	is in a quote	present	skunks = skunk		evil property	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

Yes, they spray every animal they meet, the moment they see it coming

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 spray	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spray	nsubj
4	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spray	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meet	nsubj
8	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 coming	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coming	nsubj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
13	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 moment	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spray	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	spray	present	they		every animal	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent animal=Destination
2	meet	present	they	every animal not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Co-Agent
3	see	present	they	animal		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	come	gerund	the moment			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They spray only as a last resort, after warnings

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 spray	nsubj
2	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 resort	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 resort	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 resort	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 resort	amod
7	resort	resort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spray	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 warnings	punct
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 warnings	case
10	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spray	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	present	They					as a last resort	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, they spray just for fun whenever they are bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 spray	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spray	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spray	nsubj
4	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 fun	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 fun	case
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spray	obj
8	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 bored	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bored	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bored	cop
11	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spray	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	present	they	fun					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fun=Theme
2	is	present	they					bored, whenever property	tree rules

Option 4

No, skunks cannot spray at all; that is only in cartoons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 spray	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	skunks	skunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spray	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spray	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 spray	advmod
6	spray	spray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 spray	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 cartoons	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 cartoons	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cartoons	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 cartoons	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 cartoons	case
14	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spray	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spray	can	skunks			all			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at all=Destination
2	is	present	that			cartoons			tree rules

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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