Test 1 · ★ · The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest…
King Kong roars, thumps his chest with his fists and smashes a city. What is true of real gorillas?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: roar, thump, smash, be · To what, where: chest, city
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 159 «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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: King Kong roars, thumps his chest with his fists and smashes a city.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 roars | nsubj |
| 2 | Kong | Kong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | roars | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thumps | punct |
| 5 | thumps | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 roars | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thumps | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 fists | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fists | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thumps | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smashes | cc |
| 12 | smashes | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 roars | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smashes | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roars | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | present | King | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | thump | present | King not said here | King's chest | with King's fists | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chest=Patient with fist=Instrument | |||
| 3 | smash | present | King not said here | a city | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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 of real gorillas?
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 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gorillas | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gorillas | amod |
| 6 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 true | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of real gorillas; true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Gorillas eat people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Gorillas | people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
Option 2
Gorillas cannot beat their chests at all; that is only in films
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 beat | advmod |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chests | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beat | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 beat | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 films | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 films | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 films | cop |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 films | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 films | case |
| 14 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not beat | can | Gorillas | Gorillas's chests | all | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | that | films | tree rules |
Option 3
Gorillas smash anything they meet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 smash | nsubj |
| 2 | smash | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 smash | obj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 meet | nsubj |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anything | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | present | Gorillas | anything | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | present | Gorillas = gorilla | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They are mostly calm plant-eaters; chest-beating with cupped hands is a show, not an attack
The tree, 17 words
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 | 7 eaters | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eaters | cop |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 7 eaters | advmod |
| 4 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eaters | amod |
| 5 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eaters | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 plant | punct |
| 7 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 9 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beating | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 chest | punct |
| 11 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 show | csubj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | cupped | cup | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hands | amod |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beating | obl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 show | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 show | det |
| 17 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eaters | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 attack | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 attack | advmod |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 attack | det |
| 21 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 show | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | calm plant eaters and a show and a attack | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | beat | gerund | with cupped hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hand=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cup | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | beating | a show and a attack | tree rules |
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