Test 7 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis…

«my brother wants to sit on a lily leaf» What can the giant lily Victoria leaf hold?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, giant lily · What happens: want, sit, hold · To what, where: lily leaf

This is test 7 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 leaf	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 leaf	det
9	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaf	compound
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 wants	parataxis
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 hold	aux
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lily	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lily	amod
16	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hold	nsubj
17	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 lily	appos
18	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hold	compound
19	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	my brother		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sit not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	my brother not said here	a lily leaf	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location
3	hold	can	the giant lily		tree rules

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 car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A small child's weight, if spread evenly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weight	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 child	case
5	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 spread	mark
8	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 weight	acl
9	evenly	evenly	ADV	_	8 spread	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	participle		a small child's weight not said here				evenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing heavier than a frog, or the leaf sinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 heavier	nsubj
2	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 frog	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frog	det
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heavier	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sinks	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 sinks	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 leaf	det
9	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sinks	nsubj
10	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heavier	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	the leaf						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Only water drops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 drops	advmod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	compound
3	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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