Test 10 · Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower…

«bloody hell that pitcher's full of dead flies, what's it doing» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: full dead flies, bloody hell · What happens: do, be · To what, where: bloody hell

This is test 10 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	_	3 hell	punct
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hell	amod
3	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 right	nsubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 doing	mark
5	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flies	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 pitcher	case
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flies	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 flies	case
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flies	amod
10	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 doing	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 doing	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 doing	obj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 doing	aux
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 doing	nsubj
15	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hell	acl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 hell	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · progressive	pitcher's full dead flies	bloody hell					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is	present	bloody hell					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 · ← Mova's choice

Using them as decoration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Using	obj
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 decoration	case
4	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		them = they				as decoration	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as decoration=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Digesting them for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Digesting	digest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Digesting	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 food	case
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Digesting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	digest	gerund		them = they				for food	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, they just fell in by chance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 fell	dislocated
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 chance	case
8	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	they					by chance; Nothing dislocated	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by chance=Location

Option 4

Saving them for birds to eat later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Saving	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Saving	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Saving	advcl
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	gerund		them = they				for birds	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for bird=Beneficiary
2	eat	to-infinitive						late property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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