Test 1 · ★ · Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and anima…
«a giant squid washed up, it's the kraken! run!» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: squid · What happens: wash up, be · To what, where: giant squid, kraken
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 190 «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» 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 giant squid washed up, it's the kraken! run!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 washed | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 squid | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 squid | amod |
| 4 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 washed | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kraken | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kraken | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 kraken | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kraken | det |
| 11 | kraken | kraken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 washed | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 run | punct |
| 13 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 washed | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 washed | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 washed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash up in a quote | participle · passive | a giant squid | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | squid | the kraken | 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: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It is a giant octopus with 20 arms
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 octopus | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 octopus | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 octopus | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 octopus | amod |
| 5 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 arms | case |
| 7 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 arms | nummod |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 octopus | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a giant octopus | with 20 arms | tree rules |
Option 2
It is a sea monster that sinks ships
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 monster | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 monster | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 monster | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 monster | compound |
| 5 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sinks | nsubj |
| 7 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 monster | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sinks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a sea monster | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink | present | a sea monster | ships | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is a real deep-sea animal; kraken stories may come from squids like it
The tree, 15 words
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 | 8 animal | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 animal | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animal | amod |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 deep | punct |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animal | compound |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 10 | kraken | kraken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stories | compound |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 animal | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 squids | case |
| 15 | squids | squid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 come | obl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a real sea animal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | may | kraken stories | squids | like animal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from squid=Initial_Location |
Option 4
It is a whale's tail
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 | 6 tail | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tail | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 whale | det |
| 4 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tail | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 whale | case |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a whale's tail | tree rules |
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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