Test 10 · ★★ · Pigs: mud, snouts and brains
«pig's tail's all curly and wagging» What does that usually mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tail, that · What happens: be, wag, mean
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» 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 | _ | 7 curly | punct |
| 2 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 pig | case |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 curly | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 curly | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 curly | advmod |
| 7 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wagging | cc |
| 9 | wagging | wag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 curly | conj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 curly | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 mean | obj |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | aux |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 mean | advmod |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 curly | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 curly | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | pig's tail | all, curly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wag in a quote | gerund | pig's tail not said here | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present · do-support | that | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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
The pig is angry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pig | det |
| 2 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the pig | angry property | tree rules |
Option 2
The pig is very ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pig | det |
| 2 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ill | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ill | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 ill | advmod |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the pig | ill property | tree rules |
Option 3
The pig is cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pig | det |
| 2 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the pig | cold property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The pig is probably happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pig | det |
| 2 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the pig | happy, probably property | 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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