Test 10 · ★ · Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles,…

«my uncle said cactus spines are just thorns from the stem» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle, cactus spines · What happens: say, be · To what, where: thorns, stem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 182 «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 said	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 uncle	nmod:poss
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spines	compound
6	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thorns	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thorns	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 thorns	advmod
9	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	ccomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 stem	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stem	det
12	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thorns	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 thorns	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 said	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	my uncle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	cactus spines	thorns	the stem		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

No, they are tiny roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 roots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 roots	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 roots	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 roots	amod
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, they grow out of the stem bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	9 bark	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 bark	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bark	det
8	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bark	compound
9	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow out	present	they	the stem bark					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bark=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the spines are changed leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 changed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spines	det
4	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 changed	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 changed	aux:pass
6	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 leaves	amod
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · passive		the spines					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Yes, they are dead flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 flowers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flowers	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flowers	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flowers	amod
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	dead flowers					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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