Test 2 · ★★★ · More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows…

A cartoon camel unscrews its hump and pours water for a thirsty traveller. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon camel · What happens: unscrew, pour, be · To what, where: hump, water

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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 camel unscrews its hump and pours water for a thirsty traveller.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 camel	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 camel	compound
3	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unscrews	nsubj
4	unscrews	unscrew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hump	nmod:poss
6	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unscrews	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pours	cc
8	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unscrews	conj
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pours	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 traveller	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 traveller	det
12	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 traveller	amod
13	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pours	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unscrews	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unscrew	present	a cartoon camel	camel's hump					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient
2	pour	present	a cartoon camel not said here	water				for a thirsty traveller	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Patient for traveller=Beneficiary

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 is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Correct, but only in two-humped camels, which store twice as much water

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 camels	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 camels	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 camels	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 camels	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 camels	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 camels	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
8	humped	hump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 camels	amod
9	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 store	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 store	nsubj
12	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 camels	acl:relcl
13	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 store	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 store	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hump	participle							tree rules
2	store	present	Correct two humped camels	much water				twice property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The hump holds fat; a camel copes by drinking a lot at once and losing very little water

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hump	det
2	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	nsubj
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 copes	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 camel	det
7	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 copes	nsubj
8	copes	cope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 holds	conj
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 drinking	mark
10	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 copes	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lot	det
12	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drinking	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 drinking	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 losing	cc
16	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 drinking	conj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 little	advmod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 losing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold	present	the hump	fat	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
2	cope	present	a camel		vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	gerund	a camel not said here	a lot	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
4	lose	gerund	a camel not said here	little water	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality

Option 3

The hump holds milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hump	det
2	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	nsubj
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the hump	milk					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Correct, humps are water tanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 humps	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Correct	punct
3	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tanks	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tanks	cop
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tanks	compound
6	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Correct humps	water tanks					tree rules

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