Test 7 · ★ · Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles,…

«dog barked at a lizard and it shot blood out its eyes, gross» What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: bark, shoot out, go on · To what, where: blood

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	3 barked	punct
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barked	nsubj
3	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 lizard	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lizard	det
6	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barked	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shot	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shot	nsubj
9	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 barked	conj
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shot	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 shot	compound:prt
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shot	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gross	punct
15	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shot	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 gross	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 going	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 shot	ccomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 going	compound:prt
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 barked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bark in a quote	past	dog		at a lizard	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at lizard=Stimulus
2	shoot out in a quote	past	dog	blood		tree rules
3	go on	present · progressive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

It is a horned lizard defending itself with bad-tasting blood

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 lizard	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lizard	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lizard	det
4	horned	horned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lizard	amod
5	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	defending	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 lizard	acl
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 defending	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 blood	case
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 blood	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 bad	punct
11	tasting	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 blood	amod
12	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 defending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a horned lizard		tree rules
2	defend	gerund	a horned lizard not said here	lizard	with bad tasting blood	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary
3	taste	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The lizard is crying because it is sad and lonely in the dry desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lizard	det
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crying	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crying	aux
4	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 sad	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sad	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	cop
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crying	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lonely	cc
10	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sad	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 desert	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 desert	det
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 desert	amod
14	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present · progressive	the lizard	the dry desert		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location
2	is	present	lizard		sad property	tree rules
3	be		lizard not said here			tree rules

Option 3

The lizard is badly ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lizard	det
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ill	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ill	cop
4	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ill	advmod
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the lizard					badly, ill property	tree rules

Option 4

The dog bit it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the dog	it					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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