Test 9 · ★ · Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops

Which nose belongs to a monkey from Peru, in South America?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nose · What happens: belong · To what, where: South America

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 15 «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 nose	det
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	nsubj
3	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 monkey	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Peru	case
8	Peru	Peru	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 monkey	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 America	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 America	case
11	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 America	compound
12	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 belongs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	which nose			South America		to a monkey from Peru	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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

A long floppy drooping nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 floppy	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 floppy	amod
3	floppy	floppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 floppy	acl
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drooping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	droop	gerund	a long floppy not said here	nose					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A red nose with blue ridges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nose	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nose	amod
3	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 ridges	case
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ridges	amod
6	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nose	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A flat nose with nostrils pointing sideways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nose	det
2	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nose	amod
3	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 nostrils	case
5	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nose	nmod
6	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 nostrils	acl
7	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	6 pointing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	gerund	nostrils not said here					sideways property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A narrow nose with nostrils pointing down, like an African monkey's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nose	det
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nose	amod
3	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	SCONJ	_	6 pointing	mark
5	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pointing	nsubj
6	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 nose	acl
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 pointing	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 monkey	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 monkey	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 monkey	det
11	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 monkey	amod
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pointing	obl
13	's	's	PART	_	12 monkey	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point down	gerund	nostrils	a narrow nose not said here				like a African monkey; down property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient

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