Test 11 · The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils…

«a lizard just puffed out a giant collar at me n hissed, is it gonna eat me» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lizard, giant collar · What happens: puff out, hiss, be · To what, where: n · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 165 «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» 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	_	5 puffed	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lizard	det
3	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puffed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 puffed	advmod
5	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 collar	csubj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 puffed	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 collar	det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 collar	amod
9	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	nsubj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 collar	nmod
12	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 collar	conj
13	hissed	hiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 n	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 collar	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eat	nsubj
17	gonna	gonna	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 eat	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eat	advcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	puff out in a quote	past	a lizard			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	hiss in a quote	participle		n not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	a giant collar at me and n		eat property	tree rules
4	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 · ← Mova's choice

No, it wants a hug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hug	det
6	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	it	a hug					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hug=Theme

Option 2

Yes, it is about to spit fire at you from its open mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 about	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 spit	mark
7	spit	spit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spit	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 spit	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mouth	amod
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					about property	tree rules
2	spit	to-infinitive		fire		fire's open mouth		at you	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 3

Yes, it eats people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 eats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	it	people					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, the frilled lizard is trying to look scary so you leave it alone

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 trying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lizard	det
4	frilled	frill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lizard	amod
5	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trying	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trying	aux
7	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trying	xcomp
10	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 leave	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 leave	nsubj
13	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trying	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leave	obj
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frill	participle				tree rules
2	try	present · progressive	the frilled lizard			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	the frilled lizard not said here		scary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	leave	present	you	lizard	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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