Test 3 · ★ · The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest…
«look, a zebra with a giraffe's head!» What animal is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, animal · What happens: look, be · To what, where: zebra
This is test 3 · ★ 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: «look, a zebra with a giraffe's head!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 zebra | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 zebra | det |
| 5 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 giraffe | det |
| 8 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 giraffe | case |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 zebra | nmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a zebra with a giraffe's head | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 animal is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | animal | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A young zebra
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 zebra | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 zebra | amod |
| 3 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
An okapi, the giraffe's closest relative
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 okapi | det |
| 2 | okapi | okapi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 relative | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giraffe | det |
| 5 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 relative | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 giraffe | case |
| 7 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 relative | amod |
| 8 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 okapi | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A striped antelope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 antelope | det |
| 2 | striped | striped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 antelope | amod |
| 3 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A mix of a zebra and a giraffe, born on a farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mix | det |
| 2 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 zebra | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 zebra | det |
| 5 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mix | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 giraffe | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 giraffe | det |
| 8 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 zebra | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 born | punct |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mix | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 farm | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 farm | det |
| 13 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 born | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | a mix of a zebra and a giraffe not said here | a farm | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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