Test 11 · ★ · The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart fr…

«only a few kinds of beetle, beetles are boring» What did canopy research show?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beetles · What happens: be, do · To what, where: canopy research show

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 boring	punct
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 kinds	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kinds	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kinds	amod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 beetles	nmod:poss
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 beetle	case
7	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kinds	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kinds	punct
9	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 boring	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boring	cop
11	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 boring	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boring	ccomp
15	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 show	compound
16	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 show	compound
17	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 boring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a few kinds of beetle's beetles					boring property	tree rules
2	do	past		canopy research show					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

A single tree can hold hundreds of kinds of beetles, many unnamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tree	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 kinds	case
8	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hundreds	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 beetles	case
10	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kinds	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 unnamed	punct
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 unnamed	amod
13	unnamed	unnamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	can	a single tree	hundreds of kinds of beetles					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme

Option 2

Beetles do not live in rainforests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 live	advmod
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 rainforests	case
6	rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	present · do-support	Beetles			rainforests			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rainforest=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

All beetles live on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 beetles	det
2	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	all beetles			the ground			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

Option 4

Each tree has one beetle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 beetle	nummod
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	each tree	one beetle					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient

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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