Test 8 · ★ · Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and anima…

«found a new animal in a museum drawer? ha, sure» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find, be · To what, where: new animal, museum drawer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 drawer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 drawer	det
8	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drawer	compound
9	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
11	ha	ha	INTJ	_	13 sure	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sure	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a new animal		a museum drawer			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic
2	is	present						right 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was a toy

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	4 toy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 toy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toy	det
4	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a toy					tree rules

Option 2

Museums only keep paintings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Museums	museum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Museums	paintings					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme

Option 3

Drawers cannot hold animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hold	advmod
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold	can	Drawers	animals					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The olinguito was named in 2013 after scientists studied museum skins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 olinguito	det
2	olinguito	olinguito	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 named	aux:pass
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 2013	case
6	2013	2013	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 named	obl
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 studied	mark
8	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 studied	nsubj
9	studied	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 named	advcl
10	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skins	compound
11	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 studied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		the olinguito		2013			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	study	past	scientists	museum skins					vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic

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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