Test 6 · ★ · Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baoba…

«my brother stepped on a dead leaf and it ran away screaming, lying or what» What could it have been?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, leaf · What happens: step, run away, scream, lie · To what, where: dead leaf

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	4 stepped	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	nsubj
4	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 leaf	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 leaf	det
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leaf	amod
8	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepped	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 ran	advmod
13	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ran	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lying	punct
15	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 screaming	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 what	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lying	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 been	obj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 been	aux
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 been	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 been	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 what	acl:relcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stepped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	step in a quote	past	my brother	a dead leaf		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Trajectory
2	run away in a quote	past	leaf		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scream speech: express in a quote	gerund	leaf not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lie in a quote	gerund	leaf not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A leaf-tailed gecko that looks like a dead leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gecko	det
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tailed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 leaf	punct
4	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 gecko	amod
5	gecko	gecko	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 looks	nsubj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gecko	acl:relcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 leaf	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 leaf	det
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leaf	amod
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tail	participle							vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	look	present	a tailed gecko					like a dead leaf	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

A periwinkle flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flower	det
2	periwinkle	periwinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flower	compound
3	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A baobab seed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 seed	det
2	baobab	baobab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seed	compound
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A tomato frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 frog	det
2	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frog	compound
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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