Test 11 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived
Which is usually true of animal lives?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 true | advmod |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lives | case |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | compound |
| 7 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 true | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of animal lives; true, usually 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
Small animals always live longest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 live | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Small animals | longest | always property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme long=Location |
Option 2
Big animals always die first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 die | advmod |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 die | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | Big animals | always, first property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3
All animals live the same time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 animals | det |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | all animals | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Small, fast-living animals live short lives and big ones longer, with exceptions
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animals | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Small | punct |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 living | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fast | punct |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 animals | amod |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 live | nsubj |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lives | amod |
| 9 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 live | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ones | cc |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lives | conj |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 live | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 exceptions | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 exceptions | case |
| 16 | exceptions | exception | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 live | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | live | present | Small living animals | short lives and big ones | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
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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