Test 5 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest

«stood on an ostrich egg, it didn't break, fake right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: egg · What happens: stand, not break, fake, be · To what, where: ostrich egg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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 stood	punct
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 egg	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 egg	det
5	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	compound
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 break	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 break	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 break	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 break	advmod
11	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fake	punct
13	fake	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 break	conj
14	right	right	ADV	_	13 fake	advmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand in a quote	past		a ostrich egg		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not break in a quote	past · do-support	egg			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	fake in a quote	infinitive	egg not said here		right property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	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 · ← Mova's choice

Ostrich eggs are made of stone and never break at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eggs	compound
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 stone	case
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 break	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 break	advmod
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Ostrich eggs				of stone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	not break	infinitive				all			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

Right, it must be plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 plastic	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 plastic	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 plastic	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 plastic	cop
6	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	it					plastic property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its shell is strong enough for a person to stand on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shell	nmod:poss
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 stand	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stand	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stand	mark
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 strong	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its shell					enough, strong property	tree rules
2	stand on	to-infinitive	a person						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It was a melon

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

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

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