Test 7 · ★ · Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a se…
«the cave in Romania stinks of rotten eggs, nothing can live there» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cave, rotten eggs · What happens: live, be, stink · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 179 «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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 | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cave | det |
| 3 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 stinks | case |
| 5 | Romania | Romania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stinks | compound |
| 6 | stinks | stink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cave | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 eggs | case |
| 8 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eggs | amod |
| 9 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stinks | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cave | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 live | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | aux |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 live | advmod |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 right | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 right | cop |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 live | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | can | the cave in Romania stinks of rotten eggs | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | right property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stink in a quote | rotten eggs | nom stink «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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
Dozens of kinds live there, many found nowhere else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dozens | dozen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 kinds | case |
| 3 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dozens | nmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 live | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 live | conj |
| 9 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 found | advmod |
| 10 | else | else | ADV | _ | 9 nowhere | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Dozens of kinds | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | participle · passive | many | nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
Option 2
Only bats live there, and only in the summer months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 bats | advmod |
| 2 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 live | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 months | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 months | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 months | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 months | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 months | det |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 months | compound |
| 11 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | bats | there | month | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It is full of rabbits
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 full | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rabbits | case |
| 5 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | of rabbits; full property | tree rules |
Option 4
Right, nothing lives there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 lives | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lives | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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