Test 11 · ★★ · Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric…
A giant armadillo moves out of its burrow. Who might move in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant armadillo · What happens: move out, move in · To what, where: burrow
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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 giant armadillo moves out of its burrow.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 armadillo | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 armadillo | amod |
| 3 | armadillo | armadillo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moves | nsubj |
| 4 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 burrow | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 burrow | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 burrow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | burrow | burrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moves | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move out | present | a giant armadillo | armadillo's burrow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent burrow=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: Who might move in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 move | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 move | aux |
| 3 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 move | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 move | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move in | might | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nobody, burrows collapse at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 burrows | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 collapse | nsubj |
| 4 | collapse | collapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 collapse | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collapse | present | Nobody burrows | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A lizard, an ocelot or birds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lizard | det |
| 2 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ocelot | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ocelot | det |
| 5 | ocelot | ocelot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lizard | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 birds | cc |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lizard | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A fish washed in from a nearby stream
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fish | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fish | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 washed | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 stream | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 7 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stream | amod |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 washed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | participle | a fish not said here | a nearby stream | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A young caiman from the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 caiman | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caiman | amod |
| 3 | caiman | caiman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caiman | nmod |
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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