Test 5 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr…
«can i hug the quokka, it's smiling at me» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: i, quokka · What happens: hug, smile, be · To what, where: quokka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 hug | punct |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hug | aux |
| 3 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hug | nsubj |
| 4 | hug | hug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 quokka | det |
| 6 | quokka | quokka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hug | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smiling | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 smiling | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 smiling | aux |
| 10 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hug | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 smiling | obl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 hug | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 right | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | cop |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hug | parataxis |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hug | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hug in a quote | can | i | the quokka | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smile in a quote | present · progressive | quokka | at me | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, touching or feeding quokkas is against the rules
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 touching | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 touching | punct |
| 3 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 feeding | cc |
| 5 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 touching | conj |
| 6 | quokkas | quokka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feeding | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rules | cop |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 rules | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rules | det |
| 10 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 touching | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | feed | gerund | quokkas | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quokka=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | against the rules | tree rules |
Option 2
No, it will bite your nose off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 bite | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bite | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bite | aux |
| 5 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nose | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bite | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 bite | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite off | future | it | your nose | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
Option 3
Yes, the smile means it wants a hug from you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smile | det |
| 4 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wants | nsubj |
| 7 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hug | det |
| 9 | hug | hug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wants | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wants | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the smile | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want | present | smile | a hug | from you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hug=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, but only if you give it a few chips first, then it's fine
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 give | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 give | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 give | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chips | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chips | amod |
| 11 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | obj |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 give | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fine | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 fine | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fine | expl |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fine | cop |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 give | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | you | it | first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient chip=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | you not said here | then | fine property | 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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