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Test 2 · ★★ · Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric…

In a cartoon a snake wraps a hero and you hear his bones crack like twigs. What is true for anacondas?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake, you, bones · What happens: wrap, hear, crack, be · To what, where: hero, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon a snake wraps a hero and you hear his bones crack like twigs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wraps	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wraps	nsubj
6	wraps	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hero	det
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wraps	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hear	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
11	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wraps	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bones	nmod:poss
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crack	nsubj
14	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	ccomp
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 twigs	case
16	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crack	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wraps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	present	a snake	a hero		a cartoon			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hero=Theme in cartoon=Destination
2	hear	present	you						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	crack	present	snake's bones					like twigs	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP 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: What is true for anacondas?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 anacondas	case
5	anacondas	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Anacondas never squeeze; they swallow animals while they are still kicking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anacondas	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 squeeze	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 squeeze	advmod
3	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 swallow	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swallow	nsubj
6	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 squeeze	conj
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swallow	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 kicking	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kicking	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kicking	aux
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 kicking	advmod
12	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 swallow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not squeeze	present	Anacondas						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	swallow	present	Anacondas = anaconda	animals					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
3	kick	present · progressive	Anacondas = anaconda				still		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Exactly what anacondas do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
3	anacondas	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	anacondas						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 3

Anacondas only bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anacondas	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Anacondas						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They squeeze until blood stops flowing, not by cracking bones

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 squeeze	nsubj
2	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 stops	mark
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stops	nsubj
5	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 squeeze	advcl
6	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stops	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cracking	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 cracking	advmod
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 cracking	mark
10	cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 flowing	conj
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cracking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	present	They						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present	blood						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	flow	gerund	blood not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not crack	gerund	blood not said here	bones					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bone=Theme

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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