Test 4 · ★ · Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baoba…

«a cockroach that hisses?? it's rubbing its legs innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cockroach · What happens: hiss, rub, be · To what, where: legs innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 164 «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» 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 cockroach	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cockroach	det
3	cockroach	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hisses	nsubj
5	hisses	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cockroach	acl:relcl
6	??	??	PUNCT	_	9 rubbing	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rubbing	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rubbing	aux
9	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hisses	ccomp
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 innit	compound
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rubbing	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 rubbing	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rubbing	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cockroach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hiss in a quote	present	a cockroach			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rub in a quote	present · progressive	cockroach	legs innit		tree rules
3	is	present			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, like a cricket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cricket	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cricket	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 cricket	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cricket	det
5	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it pushes air out of breathing holes on its sides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 pushes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pushes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pushes	nsubj
4	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushes	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 holes	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 holes	case
8	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 holes	amod
9	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pushes	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 sides	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sides	nmod:poss
12	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 holes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	it	air		breathing holes on air's sides			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent air=Theme out hole=Trajectory
2	breathe	gerund							vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, with its back legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 legs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 legs	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 legs	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 legs	compound
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

No, it hisses by rubbing its wings together, like a grasshopper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 hisses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hisses	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hisses	nsubj
4	hisses	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 rubbing	mark
6	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hisses	advcl
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wings	nmod:poss
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rubbing	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 rubbing	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grasshopper	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 grasshopper	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 grasshopper	det
13	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hisses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	present	it					like a grasshopper	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rub	gerund		its wings				together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme

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