Test 10 · ★★★ · More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows…
A cartoon hedgehog laps a saucer of milk by the back door. What should you really leave out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon hedgehog, you · What happens: lap, leave out · To what, where: saucer
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 154 «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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 cartoon hedgehog laps a saucer of milk by the back door.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hedgehog | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hedgehog | compound |
| 3 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laps | nsubj |
| 4 | laps | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 saucer | det |
| 6 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laps | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 milk | case |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saucer | nmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | compound |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laps | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lap | present | a cartoon hedgehog | a saucer of milk | by the back door | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucer=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: What should you really leave out?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 leave | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 leave | advmod |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 leave | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave out | should | you | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Water and meaty cat or dog food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cat | cc |
| 3 | meaty | meaty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cat | amod |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Water | conj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 food | cc |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 food | compound |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Water | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Bread soaked in milk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Bread | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 milk | case |
| 4 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soaked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak | participle | Bread not said here | in milk | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in milk=Theme |
Option 3
Chocolate biscuits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 biscuits | compound |
| 2 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Milk, but warm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 warm | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 warm | cc |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Milk | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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