Test 11 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis…
The bullet train's nose was copied from which Amazon diver?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: copy · To what, where: nose, Amazon diver
This is test 11 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 train | det |
| 2 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 train | compound |
| 3 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nose | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 train | case |
| 5 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 copied | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 copied | aux:pass |
| 7 | copied | copy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 diver | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 diver | nsubj |
| 10 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 diver | compound |
| 11 | diver | diver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 copied | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 copied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | past · passive | the bullet train's nose | Amazon diver | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice
An arapaima's scales
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 arapaima | det |
| 2 | arapaima | arapaima | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scales | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 arapaima | case |
| 4 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A piranha's sharp teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 piranha | det |
| 2 | piranha | piranha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 piranha | case |
| 4 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 teeth | amod |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A kingfisher's beak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kingfisher | det |
| 2 | kingfisher | kingfisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beak | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 kingfisher | case |
| 4 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A river dolphin's snout
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dolphin | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dolphin | compound |
| 3 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snout | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dolphin | case |
| 5 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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