Test 10 · The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, j…
A glass frog sleeps on a leaf and turns even more see-through. How?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: glass frog · What happens: sleep, turn · To what, where: leaf
This is test 10 of lesson 157 «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 glass frog sleeps on a leaf and turns even more see-through.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 frog | det |
| 2 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 frog | compound |
| 3 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeps | nsubj |
| 4 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 leaf | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 leaf | det |
| 7 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeps | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turns | cc |
| 9 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleeps | conj |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 see | advmod |
| 12 | see | see | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 turns | xcomp |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 through | punct |
| 14 | through | through | ADV | _ | 12 see | compound |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | a glass frog | a leaf | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | a glass frog not said here | see property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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: How?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
It drinks lots of water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drinks | nsubj |
| 2 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drinks | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lots | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | It | lots of water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
Option 2
It turns off its heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 turns | compound:prt |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn off | present | It | its heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
Option 3
It peels off its skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 peels | nsubj |
| 2 | peels | peel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 peels | compound:prt |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 skin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 peels | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peel off | present | It | its skin | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Source |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It hides most of its red blood in its liver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hides | nsubj |
| 2 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 hides | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 blood | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 blood | nmod:poss |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blood | amod |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 most | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 liver | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 liver | nmod:poss |
| 10 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hides | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | It | most of its red blood | blood's liver | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent most=Patient in liver=Location |
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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