Test 5 · ★ · Worms, snails and slugs

«my nan says slugs are just snails that got kicked outta their shells» Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, slugs · What happens: say, be, kick · To what, where: snails · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 217 «Worms, snails and slugs» 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 snails	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 snails	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 snails	advmod
8	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	ccomp
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 kicked	nsubj:pass
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kicked	aux:pass
11	kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 snails	acl:relcl
12	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kicked	xcomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shells	nmod:poss
14	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kicked	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 kicked	punct
16	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 right	nsubj
18	right	right	ADV	_	4 says	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	slugs	snails		tree rules
3	kick in a quote	past · passive		snails		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient shell=Result
4	is	present	nan		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

No, slugs are really a kind of worm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kind	det
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 worm	case
9	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	slugs	a kind				of worm	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, slugs are a separate kind that has no outside shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	acl:relcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 shell	det
11	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shell	amod
12	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	slugs	a separate kind					tree rules
2	have	present	a separate kind	no outside shell					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient

Option 3

Yes, slugs find empty old shells to move into

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 find	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shells	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shells	amod
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 move	mark
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	9 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	slugs	empty old shells					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Topic
2	move	to-infinitive	slugs not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a snail that loses its shell becomes a slug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 becomes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snail	det
4	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 becomes	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 loses	nsubj
6	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 snail	acl:relcl
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shell	nmod:poss
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loses	obj
9	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 slug	det
11	slug	slug	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	a snail	snail's shell					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Eventuality
2	become	present	a snail	a slug					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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