Test 5 · ★ · The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and c…
A tiger fails its first 9 hunts this week. Is something wrong with it?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiger, first 9 · What happens: fail, hunt, be · To what, where: something
This is test 5 · ★ 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: A tiger fails its first 9 hunts this week.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tiger | det |
| 2 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fails | nsubj |
| 3 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 9 | nmod:poss |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 9 | amod |
| 6 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 hunts | nsubj |
| 7 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fails | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunts | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fails | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present | a tiger | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hunt | present | tiger's first 9 | week | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Is something wrong with it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 something | cop |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 something | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | something | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, real tigers never miss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 miss | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 miss | punct |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tigers | amod |
| 4 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 miss | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 miss | advmod |
| 6 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not miss | present | real tigers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Yes, it must be blind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 blind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blind | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 blind | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blind | cop |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | it | blind property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
No, tigers do not really need to eat every week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 need | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 need | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 need | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 need | advmod |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 need | advmod |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 need | xcomp |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 week | det |
| 11 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present · do-support | tigers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | tigers not said here | week | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Not necessarily, perhaps only 1 hunt in 10 succeeds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 necessarily | advmod |
| 2 | necessarily | necessarily | ADV | _ | 7 hunt | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 necessarily | punct |
| 4 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 hunt | advmod |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 1 | advmod |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 hunt | nummod |
| 7 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 succeeds | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 10 | case |
| 9 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 hunt | nmod |
| 10 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | present | 1 hunt in 10 | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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