Test 10 · ★ · The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and c…
Ali reads that a liger is bigger than a lion and a tiger. Where might he see one?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ali, liger · What happens: read, be, see · To what, where: one
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 19 «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» 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: Ali reads that a liger is bigger than a lion and a tiger.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reads | nsubj |
| 2 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 bigger | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 liger | det |
| 5 | liger | liger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bigger | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bigger | cop |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 reads | advcl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 lion | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lion | det |
| 10 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bigger | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tiger | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tiger | det |
| 13 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lion | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | Ali | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a liger | than a lion and a tiger; big 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.
Sentence 2: Where might he see one?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 see | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | might | Ali | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
On the African savanna
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 savanna | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 savanna | det |
| 3 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 savanna | amod |
| 4 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Only in a zoo or park, never in the wild
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 zoo | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 zoo | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 zoo | det |
| 4 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 park | cc |
| 6 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 zoo | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wild | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 wild | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wild | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wild | det |
| 11 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 zoo | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Deep in the Sundarbans mangroves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deep | deep | ADV | _ | 5 mangroves | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mangroves | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sundarbans | det |
| 4 | Sundarbans | Sundarban | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 mangroves | compound |
| 5 | mangroves | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In the forests of India
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 forests | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forests | det |
| 3 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 India | case |
| 5 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forests | nmod |
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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