Test 6 · ★★ · Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothin…
A Komodo dragon on an island with no wolves or big cats. Why did it become the top hunter?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: island · What happens: become · To what, where: top hunter
This is test 6 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A Komodo dragon on an island with no wolves or big cats.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 2 | Komodo | Komodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dragon | compound |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragon | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wolves | case |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 wolves | det |
| 9 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 island | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 cats | cc |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cats | amod |
| 12 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wolves | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragon | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Why did it become the top hunter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 become | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hunter | det |
| 6 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hunter | amod |
| 7 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · do-support | island | the top hunter | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1
Its fire breath scared off all rivals
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 | 3 breath | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breath | compound |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scared | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | scared | scare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 rivals | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 rivals | det |
| 7 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare off | participle · passive | Its fire breath | off all rivals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer rival=Result |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No bigger meat-eaters lived there to compete with it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | ADV | _ | 2 bigger | advmod |
| 2 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 eaters | amod |
| 3 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eaters | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 meat | punct |
| 5 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 compete | mark |
| 9 | compete | compete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lived | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 compete | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | bigger meat eaters | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | compete | to-infinitive | bigger meat eaters not said here | with it | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It is the fastest animal on Earth
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 animal | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 animal | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animal | det |
| 4 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 animal | amod |
| 5 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Earth | case |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 animal | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the fastest animal | Earth | tree rules |
Option 4
It ate all the wolves long ago
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 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 wolves | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolves | det |
| 5 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ate | obj |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 ago | advmod |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 ate | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | It | all wolves | ago property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient |
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