Test 9 · Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth

«why's that goat's eye got a letterbox in it» What is the answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eye · What happens: be, get · To what, where: letterbox, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 211 «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» 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	_	8 got	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 why	cop
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 goat	det
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 goat	case
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 answer	csubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 letterbox	det
10	letterbox	letterbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 answer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 answer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				why property	tree rules
2	get in a quote	past	that goat's eye	a letterbox	letterbox		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letterbox=Stimulus
3	be speech: assert	present		the answer			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 · ✓ the right answer

Its wide rectangular pupil gives it a view almost all the way round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pupil	nmod:poss
2	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pupil	amod
3	rectangular	rectangular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pupil	amod
4	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gives	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 view	det
8	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 all	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 way	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obl:unmarked
13	round	round	ADV	_	5 gives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Its wide rectangular pupil	it				all way obl:unmarked; round property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient view=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It sees only straight ahead, like looking through a letterbox in a door

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	2 sees	nsubj
2	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 ahead	advmod
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 ahead	advmod
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	2 sees	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looking	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 looking	mark
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sees	parataxis
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 letterbox	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 letterbox	det
11	letterbox	letterbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	It					ahead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	look	gerund						in a door; through a letterbox	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through letterbox=Theme

Option 3

It is a cat's eye on a goat

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 eye	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eye	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eye	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cat	case
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 goat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 goat	det
9	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eye	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a cat's eye				on a goat	tree rules

Option 4

It has an eye illness

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 illness	det
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 illness	compound
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	a eye illness					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient

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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