Test 10 · ★ · Masters of camouflage
«flounder's face is all wonky, was it born like that?» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: face · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: face
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 189 «Masters of camouflage» 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
Sentence 1: «flounder's face is all wonky, was it born like that?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonky | punct |
| 2 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 flounder | case |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wonky | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wonky | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 wonky | advmod |
| 7 | wonky | wonky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonky | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wonky | advcl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 born | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonky | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonky | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | flounder's face | all, wonky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear in a quote | past · passive | face | like that | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «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.
Sentence 2: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, flounders hatch wonky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 hatch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | flounders | flounder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hatch | nsubj |
| 4 | hatch | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wonky | wonky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hatch | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | present | flounders | wonky property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
It got squashed flat by a passing whale, and one eye was pushed over
The tree, 14 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 squashed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 squashed | aux:pass |
| 3 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 3 squashed | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 whale | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 whale | det |
| 7 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whale | compound |
| 8 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squashed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pushed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pushed | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 eye | nummod |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pushed | aux:pass |
| 14 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 squashed | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 pushed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | past · passive | a passing whale | It | flat property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | push over | past · passive | one eye | over property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
It is two fish stuck together
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 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fish | cop |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 fish | nummod |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fish | acl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 stuck | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | two fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stick together | participle | two fish not said here | together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It hatched with eyes on both sides, and one moved over as it grew
The tree, 14 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 | 2 hatched | nsubj |
| 2 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hatched | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sides | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sides | det |
| 7 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hatched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 moved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 moved | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 moved | nsubj |
| 11 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hatched | parataxis |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 moved | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 grew | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 moved | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | past | It | both sides | with eyes | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | move over | participle | one | over property | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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