Test 5 · ★ · The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart fr…

«zoo dart frog's poisonous, don't touch it!» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not touch, be · To what, where: frog

This is test 5 · ★ 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: «zoo dart frog's poisonous, don't touch it!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 poisonous	punct
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dart	compound
3	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frog	compound
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poisonous	nsubj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 frog	case
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 touch	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 touch	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 touch	advmod
10	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 poisonous	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 touch	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 poisonous	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 poisonous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch in a quote	infinitive · do-support		frog					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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.

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

Yes, they make poison from sunlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 sunlight	case
7	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	they	poison		sunlight			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset poison=Product from sunlight=Material

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, zoo frogs are the most poisonous of all, because they are fed so well every day

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 poisonous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frogs	compound
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poisonous	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poisonous	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poisonous	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 poisonous	advmod
8	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 poisonous	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fed	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 fed	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fed	nsubj:pass
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fed	aux:pass
15	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 poisonous	parataxis
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 fed	advmod
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poisonous	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	zoo frogs				day	of all; poisonous property	tree rules
2	feed	present · passive		frogs = frog				well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Zoo frogs fed other food are not poisonous, though you still should not grab them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frogs	compound
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fed	nsubj
3	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poisonous	csubj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poisonous	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poisonous	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 poisonous	advmod
8	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grab	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 grab	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 grab	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	15 grab	advmod
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 grab	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 grab	advmod
15	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 poisonous	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	Zoo frogs				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	other food			poisonous property	tree rules
3	not grab	should	you	frogs = frog	still		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

No dart frog is ever poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 frog	det
2	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frog	compound
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poisonous	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 poisonous	cop
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 poisonous	advmod
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no dart frog				ever	poisonous property	tree rules

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