Test 3 · Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower…
«moonrat, so it's a rat innit» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, moonrat · What happens: be · To what, where: rat innit
This is test 3 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 | _ | 2 moonrat | punct |
| 2 | moonrat | moonrat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 right | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 innit | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 innit | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 innit | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 innit | det |
| 8 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 innit | compound |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moonrat | conj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 moonrat | 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 | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | it | a rat innit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | moonrat and a rat innit | 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
Yes, a rat that lives on the moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 rat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rat | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rat | det |
| 4 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rat | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 moon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moon | det |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a rat | the moon | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it is a cousin of the hedgehog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 cousin | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cousin | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cousin | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cousin | det |
| 6 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hedgehog | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hedgehog | det |
| 9 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cousin | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a cousin | of the hedgehog | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, the biggest rat in Asia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 rat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rat | det |
| 4 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 rat | amod |
| 5 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Asia | case |
| 7 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No, it is a kind of monkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 kind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 monkey | case |
| 8 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a kind | of monkey | tree rules |
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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