Test 11 · ★★ · The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finc…

«a red crab just jumped onto an iguana's back, is it attacking»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: red crab, crab · What happens: jump, attack · To what, where: back

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 180 «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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	_	6 jumped	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crab	det
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crab	amod
4	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jumped	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 jumped	advmod
6	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	onto	onto	ADP	_	11 back	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 iguana	det
9	iguana	iguana	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 back	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 iguana	case
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jumped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 attacking	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 attacking	aux
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 attacking	nsubj
15	attacking	attack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 jumped	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 jumped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump in a quote	past	a red crab			a iguana's back			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto back=Trajectory
2	attack in a quote	present · progressive	crab						vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

It is trying to fly with the iguana

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 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 iguana	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 iguana	det
8	iguana	iguana	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive						with the iguana	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It wants to eat the iguana

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 iguana	det
6	iguana	iguana	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		the iguana					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iguana=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is probably picking off ticks

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	4 picking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 picking	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 picking	advmod
4	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 picking	compound:prt
6	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 picking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick off	present · progressive	It	ticks				probably property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient

Option 4

It is lost

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 lost	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		It					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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