Test 8 · ★ · Masters of camouflage
«that branch has a broken bit that just opened its eyes!!» What is it most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: branch · What happens: have, break, open, be · To what, where: broken bit, branch
This is test 8 · ★ 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: «that branch has a broken bit that just opened its eyes!!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 branch | det |
| 3 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 opened | obj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 opened | advmod |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bit | acl:relcl |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 opened | obj |
| 13 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | that branch | a broken bit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | open in a quote | past | a broken bit | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme eye=Destination |
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 it most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | branch | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A sleeping squirrel curled up on a branch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 squirrel | det |
| 2 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squirrel | compound |
| 3 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 squirrel | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 curled | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 branch | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 branch | det |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 curled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl up | participle | a sleeping squirrel not said here | a branch | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A potoo pretending to be a stump
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 potoo | det |
| 2 | potoo | potoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 potoo | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stump | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stump | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stump | det |
| 7 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pretending | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | a potoo not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a potoo not said here | a stump | tree rules |
Option 3
A tree fungus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fungus | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fungus | compound |
| 3 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A stick insect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 insect | det |
| 2 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 insect | compound |
| 3 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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