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Test 12 · The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides…

A tourist sees a hard little spur hidden in a lion's tail tuft. What is it for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: tourist · What happens: see, hide, be · To what, where: hard little spur, tail tuft, tourist

This is test 12 of lesson 18 «The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars» 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 tourist sees a hard little spur hidden in a lion's tail tuft.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tourist	det
2	tourist	tourist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	nsubj
3	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spur	det
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spur	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spur	amod
7	spur	spur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	obj
8	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 spur	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 tuft	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lion	det
11	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tuft	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 lion	case
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tuft	compound
14	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hidden	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a tourist	a hard little spur					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spur=Stimulus
2	hide	participle		a hard little spur not said here		a lion's tail tuft			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tuft=Location

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 it for?

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	3 it	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	1 What	case
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		tourist					tree rules

The options

Option 1

It is a poison sting

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	5 sting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sting	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sting	det
4	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sting	compound
5	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a poison sting					tree rules

Option 2

It is used to dig holes

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 used	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dig	mark
5	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	advcl
6	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dig	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		It					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	dig	to-infinitive		holes					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme

Option 3

It holds the tuft on

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 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tuft	det
4	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	2 holds	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	present	It	the tuft					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuft=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nobody knows yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 knows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody				yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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