Test 9 · ★ · The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and c…
A keeper hears a tiger make a soft puffing sound. Should she worry?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: keeper, tiger · What happens: hear, make, worry · To what, where: tiger, soft puffing sound
This is test 9 · ★ 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 keeper hears a tiger make a soft puffing sound.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 keeper | det |
| 2 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tiger | det |
| 5 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hears | obj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hears | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sound | amod |
| 9 | puffing | puffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sound | compound |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | a keeper | a tiger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | a tiger not said here | a soft puffing sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
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: Should she worry?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 worry | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 worry | nsubj |
| 3 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 worry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worry | should | keeper | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, it means it is ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ill | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ill | cop |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | ill property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, chuffing is a friendly hello
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 hello | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | chuffing | chuffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hello | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hello | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hello | det |
| 6 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hello | amod |
| 7 | hello | hello | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | chuffing | a friendly hello | tree rules |
Option 3
No, it means it is tired and wants to sleep now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tired | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tired | cop |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wants | cc |
| 9 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wants | xcomp |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sleep | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sleep not said to happen | to-infinitive | now | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yes, it means it will attack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 attack | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 attack | aux |
| 7 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | attack | future | it | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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