Test 6 · The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils…
«gonna bring a cane toad home as a pet for my dog to play with» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: bring, play, be · To what, where: cane toad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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 | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 2 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 bring | dep |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 toad | det |
| 5 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 toad | compound |
| 6 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 bring | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 pet | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pet | det |
| 10 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 dog | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dog | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 play | mark |
| 15 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bring | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 play | obl |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 right | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 right | cop |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bring | parataxis |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a cane toad | as a pet; for my dog; home property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 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
No, they bite people's fingers off with their sharp teeth, so keep away
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 bite | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 people | case |
| 7 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bite | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 bite | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 teeth | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 teeth | amod |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bite | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bite | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite off | present | they | people's fingers | with fingers's sharp teeth | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent finger=Patient with tooth=Instrument | |||
| 2 | keep away | infinitive | they not said here | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, cane toads are poisonous and a dog could die from biting one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 poisonous | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 toads | compound |
| 4 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poisonous | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 poisonous | cop |
| 6 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 die | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 die | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 die | aux |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 poisonous | conj |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 13 biting | mark |
| 13 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 die | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 biting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | cane toads | poisonous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | could | a dog | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | bite | gerund | a dog not said here | one | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
Option 3
Yes, dogs love to eat them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 love | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 love | nsubj |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 love | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | dogs | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | dogs not said here | dogs = dog | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Option 4
Yes, they are safe toys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 toys | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 toys | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 toys | cop |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 toys | amod |
| 6 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | safe toys | 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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