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Test 7 · ★ · Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baoba…

A snake bites a red frog, then drops it and wipes its mouth on the ground. What happened?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: snake · What happens: bite, drop, wipe, happen · To what, where: red frog, frog, mouth, ground

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A snake bites a red frog, then drops it and wipes its mouth on the ground.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bites	nsubj
3	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 frog	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frog	amod
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bites	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drops	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 drops	advmod
9	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bites	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drops	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wipes	cc
12	wipes	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bites	conj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wipes	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wipes	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bites	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	a snake	a red frog					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient
2	drop	present	a snake not said here	frog			then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	wipe	present	a snake not said here	snake's mouth		the ground			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme on ground=Trajectory

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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The frog bit the snake back on the nose with its sharp teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 bit	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 nose	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nose	det
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teeth	amod
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nose	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite back	past	the frog	the snake		the nose with frog's sharp teeth			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent snake=Patient on nose=Location

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

The tomato frog oozed sticky slime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
2	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frog	compound
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oozed	nsubj
4	oozed	ooze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slime	amod
6	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oozed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ooze	past	the tomato frog	sticky slime					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slime=Source

Option 3

The snake was simply not hungry that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	6 hungry	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hungry	advmod
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hungry	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the snake				day	hungry, simply property	tree rules

Option 4

The frog was only a plastic toy frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frog	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frog	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 frog	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 frog	det
6	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 frog	amod
7	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frog	compound
8	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the frog	a plastic toy frog					tree rules

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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