Test 11 · ★★ · Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothin…

«Komodo just bites and lets go, why'd it bother» Why is one bite often enough?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Komodo · What happens: bite, let, go, bother, be · To what, where: it, one bite

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 146 «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» 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	_	4 bites	punct
2	Komodo	Komodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bites	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 bites	advmod
4	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lets	cc
6	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bites	conj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lets	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bother	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 bother	advmod
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bother	aux
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bother	expl
12	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 bites	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 bite	advmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bite	cop
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 bite	nummod
17	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bites	obl
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 enough	advmod
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 bites	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bites	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bite in a quote	present	Komodo		enough property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	let in a quote	present	Komodo not said here			tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	Komodo not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bother in a quote	would	Komodo not said here	it		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present		one bite		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

Its venom stops blood clotting and weakens the prey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 venom	nmod:poss
2	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clotting	compound
5	clotting	clotting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 weakens	cc
7	weakens	weaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stops	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prey	det
9	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weakens	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Its venom	blood clotting					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality clotting=Eventuality
2	weaken	present	Its venom not said here	the prey					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prey=Patient

Option 2

Its teeth fall out after one bite, so it has to wait for new ones to grow

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	nsubj
3	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 fall	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 bite	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 bite	nummod
7	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 has	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wait	mark
13	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 has	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 ones	case
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ones	amod
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wait	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 grow	mark
18	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	present	Its teeth	after one bite	out property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	bite			tree rules
3	wait	to-infinitive	bite not said here		for new ones	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	to-infinitive	bite not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is just tasting the animal

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	4 tasting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tasting	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 tasting	advmod
4	tasting	taste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tasting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present · progressive	It	the animal					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme animal=Attribute

Option 4

It is too tired to hold on

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	4 tired	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hold	mark
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tired	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 hold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					tired property	tree rules
2	hold on	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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