Test 9 · ★★ · Australia's venomous animals and why few people die
A farmer counts injuries on his farm this year. Which is most likely to have hurt someone?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: count, be, hurt · To what, where: injuries, farm, someone
This is test 9 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A farmer counts injuries on his farm this year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 counts | nsubj |
| 3 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | injuries | injury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 counts | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 farm | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 farm | nmod:poss |
| 7 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 injuries | nmod |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 counts | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | a farmer | injuries | farmer's farm | year | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Theme |
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: Which is most likely to have hurt someone?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 likely | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hurt | mark |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hurt | aux |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 likely | xcomp |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 hurt | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hurt | to-infinitive · perfect | someone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
An inland taipan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 taipan | det |
| 2 | inland | inland | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 taipan | amod |
| 3 | taipan | taipan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A horse or a cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 cow | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A blue-ringed octopus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 octopus | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ringed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 blue | punct |
| 4 | ringed | ring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 octopus | amod |
| 5 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A box jellyfish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 jellyfish | det |
| 2 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jellyfish | compound |
| 3 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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