Test 8 · ★ · Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a se…

«my bro touched a stalactite, so what, it's a rock» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: touch, be · To what, where: stalactite, rock

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	4 touched	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bro	nmod:poss
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	nsubj
4	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stalactite	det
6	stalactite	stalactite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 what	advmod
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 touched	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rock	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rock	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rock	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rock	det
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 what	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 rock	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	9 what	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 touched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch in a quote	past	my bro	a stalactite		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stalactite=Co-Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	bro	a rock		tree rules
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

Touching makes it glow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	csubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	touch	gerund			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	Touching	it	tree rules
3	glow	infinitive			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It will grow faster

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 grow	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	future	It					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It grows back in a day

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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 grows	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	It				day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Skin oil can stop it growing, and it took thousands of years to form

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oil	compound
2	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	obj
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	parataxis
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thousands	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 form	mark
15	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 took	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	can	Skin oil	it	tree rules
2	grow	gerund	Skin oil not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	it	thousands of years	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
4	form	to-infinitive			vn appear-48.1.1 «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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