Test 9 · ★★ · Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric…

«why's that big frog eating a mouse, frogs eat flies» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: big frog, frogs, flies · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: flies

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	7 eating	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 eating	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eating	cop
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 frog	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frog	amod
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	nsubj
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mouse	det
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
11	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	nsubj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eating	conj
13	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 flies	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flies	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 eating	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that big frog		eat property	tree rules
2	eat in a quote	present	frogs	flies		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
3	is	present	flies		right property	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

That is not a frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 frog	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frog	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 frog	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frog	det
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	That	a frog					tree rules

Option 2

Frogs only ever eat flies and worms, so the picture must be a trick made with a computer

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 worms	cc
7	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flies	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trick	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	15 trick	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 picture	det
11	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trick	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 trick	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 trick	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trick	det
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	parataxis
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 trick	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 computer	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 computer	det
19	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	eat	present	Frogs	flies and worms	ever	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
2	is a	must	the picture	a trick		tree rules
3	make	participle		a trick not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The horned frog grabs anything that fits in its huge mouth, even mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
2	horned	horned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 frog	amod
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabs	nsubj
4	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 grabs	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fits	nsubj
7	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 anything	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouth	nmod:poss
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mouth	amod
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fits	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mice	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 mice	advmod
14	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grabs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	present	the horned frog	anything				mice obl	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	fit	present				frog's huge mouth			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in mouth=Trajectory

Option 4

It is just holding the mouse

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	4 holding	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 holding	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 holding	advmod
4	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present · progressive	It	the mouse					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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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