Test 1 · Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower…

«my cousin says rafflesia smells lovely like roses» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, rafflesia, roses · What happens: say, smell, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 161 «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» 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 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rafflesia	rafflesia	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smells	nsubj
6	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smells	xcomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 roses	case
9	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smells	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 roses	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roses	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my cousin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smell in a quote	present	rafflesia	like roses; lovely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	roses	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 · ✓ the right answer

No, it smells of rotting meat to attract flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 smells	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 smells	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smells	nsubj
4	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 meat	case
6	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 meat	amod
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smells	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 attract	mark
9	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smells	advcl
10	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 attract	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	present	it		of rotting meat	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of meat=Theme
2	rot	gerund				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	attract	to-infinitive		flies		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient

Option 2

No, it has no smell at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 smell	det
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	no smell		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is the sweetest-smelling flower in the world, like roses

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 flower	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flower	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 flower	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flower	det
6	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 smelling	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sweetest	punct
8	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 flower	amod
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flower	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 roses	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 roses	case
15	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flower	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	it	the smelling flower		the world			tree rules

Option 4

Yes, bees love its smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 love	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 smell	nmod:poss
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	bees	its smell					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus
2	smell		its = it						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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