Test 7 · ★ · Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa
A museum shows an egg much bigger than a rugby ball from Madagascar. Whose egg is it?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: museum, egg · What happens: show, be · To what, where: egg
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 163 «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa» 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: A museum shows an egg much bigger than a rugby ball from Madagascar.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 museum | det |
| 2 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 egg | det |
| 5 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 bigger | advmod |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 shows | ccomp |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 ball | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ball | det |
| 10 | rugby | rugby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ball | compound |
| 11 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bigger | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Madagascar | case |
| 13 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ball | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a museum | a egg | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent egg=Recipient |
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: Whose egg is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 2 egg | nmod:poss |
| 2 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 it | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | egg | egg | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
An aye-aye's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 aye | det |
| 2 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aye | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 aye | punct |
| 4 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 aye | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An elephant bird's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | compound |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 bird | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A giant lemur's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lemur | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lemur | amod |
| 3 | lemur | lemur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 lemur | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A fossa's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fossa | det |
| 2 | fossa | fossa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 fossa | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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