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Test 1 · ★ · The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart fr…

A cartoon sloth is so lazy it falls asleep mid-sentence. What is the real reason sloths are slow?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon sloth, sloth · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: asleep mid-sentence

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 156 «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 sloth is so lazy it falls asleep mid-sentence.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sloth	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sloth	compound
3	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lazy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 lazy	advmod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 falls	nsubj
8	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	ccomp
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mid-sentence	amod
10	mid-sentence	mid-sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falls	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lazy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a cartoon sloth					lazy property	tree rules
2	fall	present	sloth	asleep mid-sentence					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mid-sentence=Result

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 the real reason sloths are slow?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 slow	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slow	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sloths	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sloths	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sloths	compound
6	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slow	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slow	cop
8	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 slow	punct

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

The options

Option 1

They are just lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

They want to look funny and harmless so that jaguars and eagles leave them alone

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 harmless	cc
7	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 funny	conj
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 leave	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	jaguars	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leave	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eagles	cc
12	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 jaguars	conj
13	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 want	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leave	obj
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here					funny property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	leave	present	jaguars and eagles	eagles = eagle				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Their leafy food gives very little energy, so moving slowly saves it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 food	nmod:poss
2	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 energy	amod
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saves	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 saves	advmod
10	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 saves	csubj
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 moving	advmod
12	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gives	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Their leafy food	little energy					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
2	move	gerund						slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	save	present	moving	energy					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

They are always ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ill	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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