Test 6 · Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking…
«it stinks like dead fish in here, what is it» at a botanic garden. What is most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, dead fish · What happens: stink, be · To what, where: botanic garden, it
This is test 6 of lesson 162 «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» 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: «it stinks like dead fish in here, what is it» at a botanic garden.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 stinks | punct |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stinks | nsubj |
| 3 | stinks | stink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 fish | case |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fish | amod |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stinks | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 here | case |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fish | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 it | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 it | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 it | cop |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fish | appos |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 it | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 16 | botanic | botanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 garden | amod |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stinks | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stink in a quote | present | it | a botanic garden | like dead fish | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | dead fish | it | 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.
Sentence 2: What is most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 likely | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Someone dropped their lunch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lunch | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dropped | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | Someone | their lunch | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A titan arum is blooming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 arum | det |
| 2 | titan | titan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arum | compound |
| 3 | arum | arum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blooming | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blooming | aux |
| 5 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | present · progressive | a titan arum | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
A rhino is in the greenhouse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rhino | det |
| 2 | rhino | rhino | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 greenhouse | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 greenhouse | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 greenhouse | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 greenhouse | det |
| 6 | greenhouse | greenhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a rhino | the greenhouse | tree rules |
Option 4
The garden pond has frozen over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pond | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pond | compound |
| 3 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 frozen | aux |
| 5 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 frozen | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze over | present · perfect · passive | the garden pond | over property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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