Test 1 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr…
In Looney Tunes, Taz the Tasmanian devil spins like a tornado. What is the real devil like?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tasmanian devil, real devil · What happens: spin, be · To what, where: Looney Tunes
This is test 1 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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: In Looney Tunes, Taz the Tasmanian devil spins like a tornado.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Tunes | case |
| 2 | Looney | Looney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tunes | compound |
| 3 | Tunes | Tune | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 spins | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Taz | punct |
| 5 | Taz | Taz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tunes | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 devil | det |
| 7 | Tasmanian | Tasmanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 devil | compound |
| 8 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spins | nsubj |
| 9 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 tornado | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tornado | det |
| 12 | tornado | tornado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spins | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | the Tasmanian devil | Looney Tunes and Taz | like a tornado | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in tune=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 is the real devil like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 devil | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 devil | amod |
| 5 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 devil | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real devil | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
A dog-sized marsupial that screeches and squabbles over food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 marsupial | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sized | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 dog | punct |
| 4 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 marsupial | amod |
| 5 | marsupial | marsupial | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 screeches | nsubj |
| 7 | screeches | screech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 marsupial | acl:relcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 squabbles | cc |
| 9 | squabbles | squabble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 screeches | conj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 food | case |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 squabbles | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | size | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | screech | present | a sized marsupial | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | squabble | present | a sized marsupial not said here | over food | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over food=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A kind of devil with horns and a pointed tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 devil | case |
| 4 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 horns | case |
| 6 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kind | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tail | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tail | det |
| 9 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tail | amod |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horns | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A huge bear that eats trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bear | amod |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 eats | nsubj |
| 5 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bear | acl:relcl |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eats | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | a huge bear | trees | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
Option 4
A spinning, tornado-shaped animal that eats anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spinning | det |
| 2 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 animal | punct |
| 4 | tornado | tornado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaped | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 tornado | punct |
| 6 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 animal | amod |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spinning | appos |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 eats | nsubj |
| 9 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 animal | acl:relcl |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 eats | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | eat | present | shaped animal | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
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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