Test 1 · ★ · Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant…

«hippos look so chill, can we row up close» What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hippos, we, you · What happens: look, row up, do

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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 look	punct
2	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 row	advcl
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 chill	advmod
5	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 row	aux
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 row	nsubj
9	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	up	up	ADV	_	11 close	advmod
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 row	xcomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 close	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 row	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 row	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	hippos	chill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	row up in a quote	can	we	close property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	do	should	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Yes, they are gentle and love being stroked on the nose by people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 gentle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gentle	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gentle	cop
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stroked	cc
7	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stroked	aux
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 stroked	aux:pass
9	stroked	stroke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 gentle	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 nose	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nose	det
12	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stroked	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 people	case
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stroked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					gentle property	tree rules
2	stroke	present · passive	people					on the nose	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent on nose=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, keep far away, hippos are territorial and dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 territorial	punct
7	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 territorial	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 territorial	cop
9	territorial	territorial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dangerous	cc
11	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 territorial	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	hippos	territorial property	tree rules
3	be		hippos not said here		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only if they yawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 yawn	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 yawn	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yawn	nsubj
4	yawn	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yawn	present	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, feed them bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 feed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feed	obj
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bread=Theme

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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