Test 4 · ★★ · Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and…
A scientist waves a still red flag and a flapping green flag at a bull. Which will it most likely charge?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientist · What happens: wave, flap, charge · To what, where: red flag
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 191 «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 scientist waves a still red flag and a flapping green flag at a bull.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 scientist | det |
| 2 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waves | nsubj |
| 3 | waves | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flag | det |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 red | advmod |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flag | amod |
| 7 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waves | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flag | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flag | det |
| 10 | flapping | flap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 flag | amod |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flag | amod |
| 12 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flag | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 bull | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bull | det |
| 15 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flag | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | present | a scientist | a red flag and a flapping green flag at a bull | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient | ||||
| 2 | flap | gerund | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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: Which will it most likely charge?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 charge | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 charge | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 charge | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 charge | advmod |
| 6 | charge | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 charge | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | future | scientist | likely property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location which=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Both at the very same moment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moment | amod |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Both | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The flapping green flag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flag | det |
| 2 | flapping | flap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 flag | amod |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flag | amod |
| 4 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | gerund | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Neither, bulls only charge people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 charge | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 charge | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 charge | advmod |
| 5 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 charge | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | present | bulls | people | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location people=Theme |
Option 4
The still bright red flag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flag | det |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 bright | advmod |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flag | amod |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flag | amod |
| 5 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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