Test 7 · ★★ · Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric…
«red touches yellow, that snake's harmless, I'll pick it up» What is the best answer?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, best answer · What happens: pick up, be · To what, where: snake
This is test 7 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 yellow | punct |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 touches | amod |
| 3 | touches | touch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 yellow | nsubj |
| 4 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 harmless | punct |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 snake | det |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 harmless | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 snake | case |
| 9 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yellow | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pick | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pick | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pick | aux |
| 13 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 harmless | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pick | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 pick | compound:prt |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 yellow | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 yellow | parataxis |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 What | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 answer | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 answer | amod |
| 21 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 What | nsubj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 yellow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up in a quote | future | I | snake | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the best answer | tree rules |
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
Fine, pick it up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pick | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fine | punct |
| 3 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pick | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 pick | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | imperative | you not said here | it | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 2
Fine, if you are quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 quick | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 quick | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quick | cop |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Fine | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | quick property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Fine, because coral snakes are harmless and only look scary to keep birds away
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 harmless | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 harmless | mark |
| 4 | coral | coral | NOUN | _ | 5 snakes | compound |
| 5 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 harmless | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 harmless | cop |
| 7 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Fine | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 look | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 look | advmod |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 harmless | conj |
| 11 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 look | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 look | xcomp |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 keep | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | coral snakes | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | coral snakes not said here | scary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep away | to-infinitive | coral snakes not said here | birds | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Don't; harmless snakes copy coral snakes, and you cannot be sure, so leave it
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 copy | punct |
| 4 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snakes | amod |
| 5 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 copy | nsubj |
| 6 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 7 | coral | coral | NOUN | _ | 8 snakes | compound |
| 8 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 copy | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sure | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 sure | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 copy | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leave | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 leave | advmod |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | copy | present | harmless snakes | coral snakes | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | can | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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