Test 9 · Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower…

Which animal would be best at climbing down a tree trunk head first?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: animal · What happens: be, climb down · To what, where: trunk head

This is test 9 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 best	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 best	cop
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 climbing	mark
7	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 best	advcl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 climbing	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 head	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trunk	compound
11	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 head	compound
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climbing	obj
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 climbing	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	which animal					good property	tree rules
2	climb down	gerund	which animal not said here	a trunk head				first property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location head=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.

The options

Option 1

A proboscis monkey's baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
2	proboscis	proboscis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 monkey	compound
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 baby	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 monkey	case
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A moonrat on the forest floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 moonrat	det
2	moonrat	moonrat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floor	compound
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moonrat	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A Bornean pygmy elephant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 elephant	det
2	Bornean	bornean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 elephant	amod
3	pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 elephant	compound
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A clouded leopard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 leopard	det
2	clouded	cloud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 leopard	amod
3	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cloud	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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