Test 10 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous

«zoo poison frogs aren't poisonous? sounds fake» Why might that be true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: poison frogs, poisonous, that · What happens: not be, sound, be

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 188 «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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	_	7 poisonous	punct
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poison	compound
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frogs	compound
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 poisonous	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 poisonous	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 poisonous	advmod
7	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sounds	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 poisonous	punct
9	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sounds	xcomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 sounds	punct
12	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 true	advmod
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 true	aux
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 true	nsubj
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sounds	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	poison frogs	poisonous property	tree rules
2	sound in a quote	present	poisonous	fake property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	might	that	true 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

Zoo keepers wash them every day, and the soap takes all the poison off

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keepers	compound
2	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wash	nsubj
3	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wash	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wash	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 takes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 takes	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soap	det
10	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	nsubj
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wash	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 poison	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 poison	det
14	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	11 takes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present	Zoo keepers	them = they			day		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	take off	present	the soap	all poison					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wild ones get their poison from insects, which zoo frogs do not eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	amod
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 poison	nmod:poss
5	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 insects	case
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 frogs	punct
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 zoo	det
10	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frogs	compound
11	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eat	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 eat	advmod
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 insects	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Wild ones	their poison				from insects	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent poison=Theme from insect=Source
2	not eat	present · do-support	zoo frogs	insects not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient

Option 3

Zoo frogs are plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frogs	compound
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plastic	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plastic	cop
4	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Zoo frogs are always babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frogs	compound
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 babies	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 babies	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 babies	advmod
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Zoo frogs	babies				always property	tree rules

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