Test 11 · ★ · Masters of camouflage

«saw a pink orchid eat a fly, plants that eat flies everywhere» What is more likely?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pink orchid, plants · What happens: see, eat, be · To what, where: fly, flies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 orchid	det
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 orchid	amod
5	orchid	orchid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fly	det
8	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plants	punct
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fly	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 eat	nsubj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 plants	acl:relcl
13	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	obj
14	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 eat	advmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 everywhere	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 likely	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 likely	cop
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 likely	advmod
19	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eat	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	eat in a quote	present	a pink orchid	a fly and plants		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
3	eat in a quote	present	plants	flies	everywhere property	tree rules
4	is	present			likely 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

The fly was sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fly	det
2	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeping	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleeping	aux
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	the fly						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The flower was made of plastic, and the fly got stuck to the glue

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 plastic	case
6	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fly	det
10	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
12	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 glue	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 glue	det
15	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the flower				of plastic	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	get	past	the fly					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Orchids always eat flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Orchids	orchid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Orchids	flies				always property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was an orchid mantis, an insect that looks like a flower

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	5 mantis	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mantis	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mantis	det
4	orchid	orchid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mantis	compound
5	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 insect	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 insect	det
8	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mantis	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 insect	acl:relcl
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 flower	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flower	det
13	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a orchid mantis and a insect					tree rules
2	look	present	a insect					like a flower	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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