Test 8 · ★ · Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles,…
A sidewinder leaves strange tracks in the sand. What shape are they?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sidewinder, tracks · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: strange tracks, sand, shape
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A sidewinder leaves strange tracks in the sand.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sidewinder | det |
| 2 | sidewinder | sidewinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tracks | amod |
| 5 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leaves | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sand | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sand | det |
| 8 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | a sidewinder | strange tracks | the sand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent track=Theme in sand=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 shape are they?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 shape | det |
| 2 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shape | cop |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shape | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 shape | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tracks = track | what shape | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Short J-shaped marks side by side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 side | amod |
| 2 | J | J | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shaped | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 J | punct |
| 4 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 marks | amod |
| 5 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 side | compound |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 side | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 2
One long straight line in the sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 line | nummod |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 line | amod |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 line | amod |
| 4 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sand | det |
| 7 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 line | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Round holes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 holes | amod |
| 2 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Zigzag footprints
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zigzag | zigzag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 footprints | compound |
| 2 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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