Test 12 · ★★ · Australia's venomous animals and why few people die
«sea snake!! it's coming for us» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake · What happens: come, be · To what, where: sea snake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 166 «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» 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 snake | punct |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snake | compound |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 4 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 3 snake | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | aux |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 coming | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 right | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 right | cop |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coming | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | snake | sea snake | for us | tree rules | |||
| 2 | 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
Sea snakes are not venomous, so pick it up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snakes | compound |
| 2 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 venomous | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 venomous | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 venomous | advmod |
| 5 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pick | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 pick | advmod |
| 8 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 venomous | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pick | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pick | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Sea snakes | venomous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick up | infinitive | it | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It will attack, so swim towards it first and scare it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 attack | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 attack | aux |
| 3 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 swim | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 swim | advmod |
| 6 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attack | conj |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 swim | obl |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 swim | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 scare | cc |
| 11 | scare | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attack | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 scare | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | future | It | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swim | infinitive | it | first property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | scare | infinitive | it | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
Option 3
It wants food, so feed it from your hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feed | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 feed | advmod |
| 6 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feed | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | It | food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feed | infinitive | food | your hand | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sea snakes are venomous but usually gentle, so stay calm and let it pass
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snakes | compound |
| 2 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 venomous | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 venomous | cop |
| 4 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 gentle | cc |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 gentle | advmod |
| 7 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 venomous | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stay | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 stay | advmod |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 venomous | parataxis |
| 11 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stay | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stay | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sea snakes | venomous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Sea snakes not said here | usually property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stay | infinitive | calm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | it | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pass | infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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