Test 11 · ★ · Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant…

«bird with a shoe for a beak just standing there for hours, is it broken»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: beak · What happens: stand, break · To what, where: bird

This is test 11 · ★ 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	_	2 bird	punct
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 broken	nsubj:pass
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 shoe	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shoe	det
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bird	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 beak	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beak	det
8	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoe	nmod
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 standing	advmod
10	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 beak	acl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 standing	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 hours	case
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 standing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bird	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 broken	aux:pass
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 broken	nsubj:pass
17	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 broken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand in a quote	gerund	a beak not said here			there	hour		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break in a quote	present · passive		bird with a shoe for a beak					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

It is waiting for lungfish to come up to breathe

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 waiting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 lungfish	case
5	lungfish	lungfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waiting	advcl
8	up	up	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 breathe	mark
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	present · progressive	It	for lungfish	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come up	to-infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	breathe	to-infinitive			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is stuck in the mud and cannot get out until the next rain

The tree, 15 words

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 stuck	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stuck	cop
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mud	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mud	det
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 get	advmod
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stuck	conj
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
12	until	until	ADP	_	15 rain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rain	det
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rain	amod
15	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the mud		stuck property	tree rules
2	not get out	can					until the next rain	out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is a statue

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 statue	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 statue	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 statue	det
4	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

It is asleep for the whole winter

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 asleep	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 winter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 winter	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 winter	amod
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				winter	asleep property	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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